Flipthrough: The Full-Color 1982 Avalon Hill Catalog

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[caomhan]

OMG just the cover and you can tell this was early 80's. What a treasure.

[jameshenderson]

So many good memories.

*wipes tear from eye*

[VictorWyatt]

I love coming across old catalogs in game boxes. Oh, the nostalgia...

[SagaciousHamster]

That was a blast to watch. Made me realize I have a lot of their 70's and early 80s wargames, and even had one of the myriad baseball games. I need to root through the boxes and see what archeological finds I can make.

[sketchupjan]

This was a lot of nostalgia for me (like it obviously was for a lot of other people who have been commenting here). I can only agree when you write that Guns of August is a very slow moving game. I do, however, think that it is harder to make a game about WWI than about WWII. Advanced Civilization better than Civilization - YES I agree! Among other games here I also played Magic Realm, quite a unique item in this context. Thank you a lot for making this video for middle-aged men like me.

[NullSpaceKid]

Lots of memories here, including games I still have but never played, such as Flat Top, which barely fits in its box yet is unpunched & in great shape. Caesar's Legions turned me off because of NATO symbology on the counters. otoh Alesia I will play to this day.

[KWHgames]

Could not had done it better myself . . . thanks for the walk down memory lane. I am unsure where/when I obtained the catalog; but maybe it came with my copy of Conquistador? Thanks again.

[andrewmcdonald]

wow took me back to 6th or 7th grade. I was mostly into the sports games then. But not too long later when we had a computer played many of those "micro computer " games.

[NullSpaceKid]

Amoeba Wars was a fun & easy multiplayer game. Space amoebas, how could one resist. Feudal was a chess-like game with pegged plastic pieces fitting into a board full of holes, my brother in law had it & we played it a few times but nothing special.

[foodflights]

I look at that catalog and I see an 18-year-old me with hair. Ahhh, memories....

[OntarioRimrunner]

Caesar's Legions was Loren Wiseman's big wargame design.

[yeoldegeezergamer]

Chancellorsville was remade (i had that copy) in the 1970s so the catalog is correct and showing that version

[ThymeKeeper]

I have actually played UFO. It is essentially an abstract strategy game with UFO trappings. Oddly, it's fairly modern in design and you could easily make a new version with modern components that would go over OK, although not with wargamers :).

[scotthartmann]

Magic Realm 10 different characters from slow Berserker that could carry anything but couldn’t get out of the way to the Witch King that had no form but morphed into a dragon, eagle, or mouse to move where others couldn’t.

[stoneworkmegapup]

I owned Conquistador, but it didn't contain that catalogue.

[Muzzlepaint]

GI Anvil of Victory was released in 1983

[GrumblingGrognard]

I have Fury In The West; I love it. I have seen quite a few of your videos; I think you are correct in your assessment. You would not rate the game nearly as highly as most; it lacks the complexity/detail of most of your games and lord knows you have plenty of games on that battle.

[Inkspot]

I still own the 80s edition of battle of bulge, great game play it once or twice a year

[philhatfield]

If you want to play Wizard's Quest, Acquire and Bismarck, I've got them and would be willing to play them with ya! I could even show you what Moonstar is like! Lots of good games in that magazine!

[Stiglr]

Have you got a copy of the 1975 catalog, that with the yellow cover and the "Lifetime of Pleasure" headline? That one actually had a very important effect on my life (and I'm kicking myself for shipping that off to 3rd party buyers when I divested of old AH games several years ago).