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Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

In the mid-1980s, Chaosium entered into a complex arrangement with Avalon Hill to publish RuneQuest material while Chaosium maintained editorial control over Glorantha-based material for the game ( which Avalon Hill would publish ).

In an attempt to leverage the power of a much bigger gaming company, RuneQuest III was published with Avalon Hill in 1984.

Unfortunately, RuneQuest did not prosper with its association with Avalon Hill, and the relationship between Chaosium, who held the rights to Glorantha, and Avalon Hill, who held the rights to RuneQuest, finally broke down completely in 1995.

German-style games are generally simpler than the wargames that flourished in the 1970s and 1980s from publishers such as SPI and Avalon Hill, but nonetheless often have a considerable depth of play, especially in some " gamers ' games " such as Tigris and Euphrates and Caylus.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention.

It was also from Avalon Hill that he ordered the first blank hexagon mapping sheets that were available, which he then employed to design his own games.

In 1973, Gygax attempted to publish the game through Avalon Hill, who turned down his offer.

In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled The Peter Principle Game.

The latter was published by Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast.

* Stalingrad ( wargame ), a table top wargame, published by Avalon Hill in 1963

SJG borrowed and expanded upon ideas pioneered by strategy game companies such as Metagaming Concepts, Avalon Hill and TSR.

After nearly breaking even on Tactics, he decided to found the Avalon Hill Game Company as a publisher of intelligent games for adults, and is called " The father of board wargaming ".

The modern commercial board wargaming industry is considered to have begun with the publication of Tactics II in 1958, and the founding of The General Magazine by Avalon Hill in 1964.

Avalon Hill had a very conservative publishing schedule, typically about two titles a year, and wargames were only about half their line.

The early history of board wargaming was dominated by Avalon Hill, even though other companies, such as SPI, left their own permanent marks on the industry.

With the purchase of Avalon Hill by Hasbro, no one company is identified with the hobby as a whole.

Roger Sherman Loomis believed it was derived from Cavalon, a place name that he suggested was a corruption of Avalon ( under the influence of the Breton place name Cavallon ).

It has been suggested that the concept may be based on Hy Brasil, a mythical land that can reputedly be seen off the coast of Ireland for one day in every seven years, as well as other paradise islands like Avalon, Saint Brendan's Island etc.

Frankie Avalon, also of South Philly, suggested Fabian as a possibility.

In a nod to Baltimore's position as the home of Avalon Hill and the birthplace of the commercial wargame hobby, Don Greenwood, a game designer with Avalon Hill and founder of the convention, suggested calling the show " Origins ".

House rules date back to the earliest days of role-playing: the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons suggested that players should have a copy of the Chainmail historical wargame for measurement and combat rules, and even more confusingly, it also presumed ownership of the Avalon Hill game Outdoor Survival ( at the time, Avalon Hill was a competitor to D & D's publisher, TSR, Inc .; later, TSR and Avalon Hill would both come under the Hasbro / Wizards of the Coast umbrella ).

As Benedict says of the Avalon that he has adopted, acting as Lord Protector, " young boys are not named Corwin here, nor am I brother to anyone of that name ".

Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine.

Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age nine.

Avalon Hill also had its own house organ which promoted sale and play of its games, The General Magazine, which was published regularly between 1964 and 1998.

Players, then, were usually required to purchase Avalon Hill's expansion modules in order to play additional scenarios.

The DCI ( formerly, Duelists ' Convocation International ) is the official sanctioning body for competitive play in Magic: The Gathering and various other games produced by Wizards of the Coast and its subsidiaries, such as Avalon Hill.

KROY would play the top hits of the days by artists including Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker, The Shirelles, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, The Beatles and the music of the British Invasion, Bob Dylan, the sounds of Motown, plus all the various dance sounds of the time ; the Twist, The Watusi, and the Mashed Potato.

The pen-name is play on the magical realm of Avalon and the young later-to-be, King Arthur, within the story-cycle of tales known generally as King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ; specifically according to Taylor ( 2001: p. 148 ), Woodroffe chose the name from the noted incomplete magnum opus, the painting ' Arthur's Sleep in Avalon ' by Burne-Jones.

The core San Francisco rock bands, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service ( including pre-Dino Valenti ), would play for both Graham's concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium, once a Black Muslim temple, and the Family Dog at Helms ' Avalon dances.

There is a computer version of the game, produced by Avalon Hill in 1994, which reproduces the look and play of the board game almost exactly, allowing the player to compete with up to five computer controlled factions.

Game play at the lower level is more like miniature play than like Avalon Hill's traditional hexgrid mapboard game.

It is based upon the general Avalon Hill system of combat and movement factors with a focus upon ease of play.

When his favorite game was sold along with Avalon Hill to Hasbro, Schilling joined the small gaming company Multi-Man Publishing which maintained ASL and other Avalon Hill titles.

Their first publication was Backblast, a fanzine for Avalon Hill's wargame Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ).

Around the same time, Avalon Hill had made the decision that ASL did not have a future, and so MMP sought to keep it alive among fans by publishing occasional scenarios and a fanzine.

After Avalon Hill was sold to Hasbro in 1999, MMP negotiated to license ASL from Hasbro.

Following the lead of companies like Avalon, Tannoy and Millbank Electronics etc., in the 1980s many other companies such as ASL, Application Solutions ( Safety and Security ) Ltd began producing voice-evacuation systems.

Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ) is a tactical-level board wargame, originally marketed by Avalon Hill Games, that simulates actions of approximately company or battalion size in World War II.

ASL was the first of Avalon Hill's ' advanced ' games ( the others were Advanced Civilization and Advanced Third Reich ).

On January 15, 1999, Multi-Man Publishing, LLC ( MMP ) announced an exclusive association with Hasbro, Inc. " to develop, produce, and distribute games and other products for Avalon Hill's Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ) game system.

" MMP is a gaming company founded in 1994 by Perry Cocke and Brian Youse, and later co-partner Curt Schilling, to preserve ASL and other Avalon Hill games.

The Avalon Hill Game Company themselves described ASL in their 1996 catalogue as:

Close Combat was developed as a computer game version of the acclaimed Avalon Hill board game Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ).