Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brahms!jablow
From: jablow@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Robert Jablow)
Newsgroups: net.games.board,net.games.frp
Subject: The Eon Product Story
Message-ID: <12135@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 00:33:09 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12135
Posted: Mon Mar  3 00:33:09 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Mar-86 01:54:38 EST
References: <1479@gitpyr.UUCP> <9536@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: jablow@brahms.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow)
Distribution: net
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Lines: 29
Keywords: Eon Products, West End Games, CE
Xref: watmath net.games.board:216 net.games.frp:2398

About two years ago, Eon Products went out of business.  They
could not handle the strain of producing so many games with
only a four-man company.  They sold all rights to their games
to West End Games of New York, and a more fitting bunch of people
I could not name.  Anyone who would give both Greg Costikyan and
Eric Goldberg a job deserves anything it gets.

West End will be coming out with a repackaged edition of CE Real_Soon_Now.
It will have some minor editing done.  Perhaps some of the more problematic
powers will be removed.  I wonder if they'll start up a mag like Eon's old
ENCOUNTER magazine.  If you want a great game to play, try CE.  Ignore
expansion set 5, Moons, however.

Incidentally, if you are looking for an interesting diplomatic game, try
Pax_Brittanica, which Greg Costikyan did for Victory Games (=SPI-in-exile).
It is a brilliant (literally--look at the map) game on the age of Victoria
and the colonization and exploitation of the world by Europe and the US.
Recommend it to your friends in net.politics--you'll never hear the end
of the arguments.

			Respectfully,
			Eric Robert Jablow
			MSRI
			ucbvax!brahms!jablow

	I may be a screwy little wabbit, but at least I'm not
	going to Alcatraz!

				--E. Fudd--