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Posts Tagged ‘avalon hill games’

Boys in the Basement

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

This post is dedicated to Pat Farenga, a friend and an intelligent and well-spoken advocate for unschooling. Check out his website at http://www.patfarenga.com. He sent me a nice email based on my “Avalon Hill” post so I decided to kind of reprise it with my continuing obsession with ever bigger, ever more complex simulation board games. After all those hours wrestling with all the rules, logistics, charts, etc… no wonder I ended up as a systems analyst. Anyway… (more…)

Avalon Hill

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Avalon Hill is a company that developed and marketed a series of historical war and other board games, including games that simulated historical military conflicts in World War II, the US Civil and Revolutionary Wars. When I was 10 years old I bought their “D-Day” game, which covered the Allied invasion of France through the defeat of Nazi Germany. (more…)