Avalon Hill
Overview
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.
Trivia
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.
Related Web-Sites
- Avalon Hill -- The Official homepage
- Avalon Hill Ludography -- A good write-up about Avalon's Hill history plus what appears to be a complete list of all of their games.
- Wikipedia -- The Avalon Hill company profile at Wikipedia
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