The Avalon Hill Game Company is 70 years old this year, so what better time to chronicle the history of Avalon Hill. In Part 3, we …
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Made me sad those days are over. I went on to exclusively play computer games for 30 years but have recently started playing Fortress Europa Compass Games enhanced version with a friend. I find it more fullfilling than computer games. The tactile feel of the game and pitting your wits against your friends is much more interesting than a cold computer game.
Even though computer games have their own dominance over the field, to this day, I still enjoy the look, feel and soul of an AH wargame. The difference between a book and a Kindle no doubt. One has a tactile feel and solidity, while the other is just words on a screen. The only real problem still boils down to needing group enthusiasm to play a wargame. The only way a publisher could survive these days would be to have a group and solo option on every game. Without exception.
Thank you.
This series is an immensely valuable contribution to the hobby.
I am pretty sure it was JFK who played Diplomacy and not his son.
Thank you for these awesome videos. Perfectly presented and bought back so many memories. I can't believe how many of these games my friend and I owned during the 80's and 90's – found myself constantly thinking – had that…..had that…..had that!. Unfortunately life changes means I only have one AH game left! Statis Pro Baseball. Great times with great games.
thank you great times indeed😘
A 1996 release is an "early" PC game? Feeling older all the time LOL
Spent hours playing Third Reich and Victory in the Pacific, fond memories of a bygone age.
This was great, I really enjoyed watching this. Avalon Hill was the best and made so many memorable games with high quality components. Lookng forward to the next episode, keep 'em coming please!
Great series, really cool videos, thank you for making these. I got my start with Arab-Isreali Wars, then I got Squad Leader. Squad Leader is AH best game. Still love the original. Great memories.
An absolutely brilliant production about the history of AH. Squad Leader! Wow. I'm an ASL player now, but SL started it all and took me down a major rabbit hole. This video is an exciting nostalgia trip that takes me back in time to the glory days of the war gaming genre. Also very interesting is the Gary Gygax rejection – as an AD&D player, this could have had huge implications at the time for that game with the backing of AH. Thank you for illustrating AH evolution in an interesting format. Cheers!
I used to have the original purple box Squad Leader. In fact, I was involved in a pre-release play test while still in high school. I was playing the Germans versus Russians in The Guards Counterattack. The game went down to the final turn and all that I had to do to win was send my last squad across the street into the victory building. However, the Russians had a 50cal positioned at one end of the street ready to cut my squad down as soon as they stepped into the street. At that point I failed my personal morale check and conceded to the Russian player saying "good game, you win ". The Avalon Hill reps just stared at each other with amazement. I found out later that they knew that they had a hit on their hands at this point. They wrote about the incident in The General.
KUDOS!! That was fantastic! Great work!!!!
Once again, an excellent presentation. Russian Campaign was a game that was based on an Australian company named Jedko games. AH bought the game and reworked/reboxed it keeping the same name. RC was a fun & fast game. I still have the original Aussie game.
My grandmother had Marble Maze. It was a box with a moveable board that had a maze on it, and you had knobs on two sides that would lower and raise the platform. In doing this, you would move the marble in one direction or another, trying to get it out of the maze. However, I believe that there were other exits as well which were not the correct exit, and if you accidentally sent it out one of those, you lost.
Thank you! Excellent documentary!
The Origins Tobruk came in a tan box and iirc were signed by Hal Hock. Tobruk is def a different kind of game from the usual AH style.
Thanks, probably my favorite games are from that era!
Great video, took me down memory lane. I had a lot of those games back in the day.
Outstanding video – thank you! So many great classics and so many great memories. I enjoyed the first two videos and look forward to the next one!
This is great.
My most precious AH game is Arab-Israeli War, a (for then), modern warfare update of Panzer Blitz.
I played Afrika Korps, Diplomacy, Kingmaker, Blitz and Leader, and others I can’t recall. How does one even find game players these days?
Very nostalgic romp for me. Squad Leader blew my 14 year old mind in 1981..
I was a huge AV player. SL was even used as a training tool when I was in the Marine Corps. Doe's anyone has any information as to if or when a PC app. might be released. That would be an amazing step into the 21st century.
Seeing the comments of others – it takes me back down the Rabbit Hole – I inherited my older brother's PanzerBlitz game in 1975 (I was in junior high), and then got Squad Leader when it came out in 1977 – I used to play with a couple of neighbors; games that would last hours or maybe days. My gaming life went on the backburner mid-high school when I found girls and working as a stage-hand… THEN the old Harpoon came into my life in college via a family friend (US Naval Officer) – and again in 1986 when I was in school as a US Naval Aircrewman – Aviation Anti-Submarine Warfare Operator – there were a dozen of us who would gather in three different barracks rooms (Red, Blue, and Observer/Judge) and play ASW games using a 4×8 sheet of plywood for our map-board as we charted positions, contacts, etc – again, games that could last hours and sometimes a weekend. Ten Years later – my favorite was Harpoon on the PC – which we actually used for training scenarios. I NEVER got into the vapid shoot-em-up games – still like sitting and THINKING. Thanks for the Memories.
Origins needs to get back to it's roots, and back to Baltimore where it all began
Who the hell is Rictifin?
I remember seeing all the AH non-war games in stores and thinking that was really how they supported the war games side. How true that was financially has never been clear to me.