Avalon Hill Game Company, The

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The Avalon Hill Game Company once claimed to be "the world's largest publisher of a great variety of strategy board games of skill." They produced numerous strategy and role-playing games of many types. In the early to mid-1980s, Avalon Hill formed their Microcomputer Games division, which produced primarily strategy games for multiple computer platforms. Hasbro bought Avalon Hill in 1998. It is now an imprint of Hasbro Interactive's Microprose division.

Credited on 113 Games from 1980 to 2005

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Diplomacy (2005 on Windows)
Achtung Spitfire (1997 on Windows, Windows 3.x, Macintosh)
History of the World (1997 on Windows, Windows 3.x)
Cavewars (1996 on DOS)
Over the Reich (1996 on Windows, Windows 3.x, Macintosh)
Third Reich (1996 on DOS)
Wooden Ships & Iron Men (1996 on DOS)
1830: Railroads & Robber Barons (1995 on DOS)
Advanced Civilization (1995 on DOS)
D-Day: America Invades (1995 on DOS, Macintosh)
Flight Commander 2: Mission Builder (1995 on Windows 3.x, Macintosh)
World at War: Volume II - Stalingrad (1995 on DOS, Macintosh)
5th Fleet (1994 on DOS)
Flight Commander 2 (1994 on Windows 3.x, Macintosh)
Operation Crusader (1994 on DOS, Macintosh)
Kingmaker (1993 on DOS, Amiga, Atari ST)
Computer Diplomacy (1992 on Amiga, Atari ST)
Third Reich (1992 on Amiga, Atari ST)
Combots (1990 on Commodore 64)
Legends of the Lost Realm (1989 on Macintosh)

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1998

Company acquired by Hasbro.

1998

Monarch Avalon Printing disbands Avalon Hill when it gets out of the gaming business.

1962

Company becomes a subsidiary of Monarch Avalon Printing.

1958

Company founded by Charles S. Roberts.

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Avalon Hill's early address:

4517 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD 21214

Avalon Hill created five games for the Atari 2600 but they released them just before the 1983 video game crash. Consequently, they sold poorly due to a glut of product on the market at this time and retailers were slashing orders. They can be difficult to collect, today.

Their web site used to be at http://www.avalonhill.com/

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