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.
119 Games Released (1980 - 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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History +
- 1998
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Bought by Hasbro.
- 1998
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Monarch Avalon Printing disbands Avalon Hill when it gets out of the gaming business.
- 1962
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Company becomes a subsidiary of Monarch Avalon Printing.
- 1958
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Company founded by Charles S. Roberts.
Trivia +
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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Related Web Sites +
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Avalon Hill Game Company, The
official site -
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
Frequent Collaborators
- 52 games with Microcomputer Games Inc.
- 4 games with Dyadic Software Associates
- 4 games with Big Time Software, Inc.
- 3 games with Quest, Inc.
- 3 games with U.S. Gold Ltd.
- 3 games with 4D Interactive Systems, Inc.
- 3 games with Atomic Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Stanley Associates
- 1 game with Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd.
- 1 game with Colorado Computer Creations
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