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vintage print ad for Avalon Hill's D-Day wargame

HOW I BECAME A WARGAME PUBLISHER

At the age of 13, I started studying the "Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation" published in the back of magazines, usually in the D...

IN 1972

In the course of editing over 100 games I came to know something no one else at SPI knew—where all the best ideas were.

OPEN UP THE TIRED EYES

I confess I was surprised when GDW's Avalanche won 'Best Graphics' at Origins '77. Perhaps one contributing factor is that the three SPI games nomi...

LINDA MOSCA

"I would like to remind women wargamers that while they are fewer in numbers, they make equally effective generals."

THE CRISIS OF CONFORMITY

Most people are just trying to be okay. They desire nothing more than to dissolve into the herd and become indistinguishable from the mass—

detail of the boxcover art on OSG's Napoleon at Bay

Kevin Zucker Interview 1997

I had just designed Napoleon's Last Battles and wanted a larger scale, to show how battles got set-up. I chose 1814 as the campaign "next to" Water...

Jack Greene

Jack Greene was a game designer and publisher, owner of Quarterdeck International, inducted into the Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame in 1990. His d...

First & Franklin Presbyterian Church with its soaring spires into a high-cloudy blue sky

DARK DAYS IN BALTIMORE

In December of 1979, I moved from New York to Baltimore to take a job at Avalon Hill. Unfortunately, though I did not realize it at the time, I was...

Kevin Zucker circa 1979 in his Navy bridge coat.

"Days of Pragma"

One day in December of 1978 I stayed home from work with a high fever. Ina intuitively knew to call me at home, though we hadn’t talked in six mont...