The format by this time was 60 pages. A contest in each issue would focus on one particular game in the AH line, and the answer to a previous contest would appear. Each issue also had "So That's What You've Been Playing" showing statistics of mail in surveys included in each issue, where players rated the Avalon Hill and later, Victory Games, the sister company to AH titles they had been playing according to frequency. A Reader's Buyers Guide rated games on overall value, components, complexity, completeness, playability, availability, and game length again, based the bi-monthly surveys.
The magazine would also contain full page advertisements for Avalon Hill Games and for a brief period, a pull out section called "The Victory Games Insider" would feature news and information on Victory Games products.
Sports and Computer Games had their own sections, though the meat and potatoes of Avalon Hill's line were the board wargames. Under Tucker's editorship, the magazine underwent a facelift and positioned itself in the center of the boardgaming hobby by acknowledging the wider hobby with reviews of competing company games and the expanding computer gaming market. The General ceased publication in the wake of the Avalon Hill buyout by Hasbro in The last issue was Volume 32, Number 3.
Hasbro briefly toyed with the idea of having another of its subsidiaries, Wizards of the Coast, operate the magazine, but couldn't make a business case for it before Tucker moved on to become the editor of C3i magazine for GMT Games. Total Items Older Stats. Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest.
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Year Year. About Us. Privacy Policy. Our Latest Newsletter. Product Reviews. Newsletter RSS Feed. Start Over Advanced Search. Selected Products. Products found in this section It is an index of the issues indexed by the game title covered. The Boardgamer magazine was a quarterly magazine Published between and , the They were known as They were known as Unofficial Player It covered SPI titles and other subjects related to wargaming and military history.
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