On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 12:24 PM, Hugh Falk wrote: [Snip]
I also collect AH games. My list is here:I think part of the problem with AH is that their board sport games and wargames overshadowed the computer games in the company. They had moved more to publisher role by that time unlike SPI which designed and developed almost all of their wargames in house.
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/avalonhill.htm (no history section for
AH yet...need to get to that). For some reason AH games are not very
desirable on ebay (with only a few exceptions like Telengard). AH was one
of the most prolific publishers of the early 80's, but I guess their
products overlapped and were just overshadowed by SSI.
The other thing that might of counted against AH is that while their wargames got the premier treatment -- it helps to own your own printing presses! -- the computer games just didn't compare goodie-wise with an Infocom or Origin game. There were a few exceptions, Empire of the Over-Mind comes to mind, but by and large the goodies and the games just weren't that exciting.
Then again, I may be biased. I still have some of my AH board wargames. :)
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