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1978 Origins Award Winners
The following are the winners of the 5th annual (1978), Origins Award, presented at Origins 1979. Charles Roberts Awards The H.G. Wells Awards Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductee * John Hill John Hill may refer to: Business * John Henry Hill (1791–1882), American businessman, educator and missionary * John Hill (planter) (1824–1910), Scottish-born American industrialist and planter * John Hill (businessman) (1847–1926), Austral ... References External links 1978 Origins Awards Winners {{Origins Awards Origins Awards by year 1978 awards 1978 awards in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins. The Origins Award is commonly referred to as a Calliope, as the statuette is in the likeness of the muse of the same name. Academy members frequently shorten this name to "Callie". History Originally, the '' Charles S. Roberts Awards'' and the Origins Awards were one and the same. Starting with the 1987 awards, the Charles S. Roberts were given separately, and they moved away from Origins entirely in 2000, leaving the Origins Awards as a completely separate system. In 1978, the awards also hosted the 1977 '' H. G. Wells awards'' for role-playing games and miniature wargaming. Categories The Origins Awards were originally presented at the Origins Game Fair in five categories: ''Best Professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division. Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, and board games based upon historical events. History The Avalon Game Company Avalon Hill was started in 1952 outside Baltimore in Catonsville, Maryland by Charles S. Roberts under the name of "The Avalon Game Company" for the publication of his game '' Tactics''. It is considered the first of a new type of war game, consisting of a self-contained printed map, pieces, rules and box designed for the mass-market. Other war games published over the prior half-century, which R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Awards By Year
Origin(s) or The Origin may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Comics and manga * ''Origin'' (comics), a Wolverine comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics in 2002 * ''The Origin'' (Buffy comic), a 1999 ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' comic book series * Origins (''Judge Dredd'' story), a major ''Judge Dredd'' storyline running from 2006 through 2007 * ''Origin'' (manga), a 2016 manga by Boichi * '' Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin'', a 2002 manga by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko * '' Wolverine: Origins'', a Marvel Comics series Films and television * ''Origin'' (TV series), 2018 science-fiction TV series * "Origin" (''Angel''), a fifth-season episode of ''Angel'' * '' Origin: Spirits of the Past'', a 2006 anime movie also known as ''Gin-iro no Kami no Agito'' * Origin (''Stargate''), the religion of the Ori * "Origin" (''Stargate SG-1''), a ninth-season episode of ''Stargate SG-1'' * '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', a 2009 superhero film, prequel to the ''X-Men'' film tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hill (game Designer)
John Evans Hill (February 21, 1945 – January 12, 2015) was an American designer of military board wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming. He is best known as the designer of the Avalon Hill board game ''Squad Leader'' and the American Civil War miniatures game ''Johnny Reb''. He was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame. Early life John Evans Hill never knew his biological father, John T. Hill, who was killed in action during World War II while his mother Marian Jane Hill was pregnant. John Evans Hill was born on February 21, 1945 in Chicago and grew up in Elmhurst, Illinois. When Hill was three years old, his mother married Edward F. Whitley, who became the man Hill identified as his father. Hill also had a half-brother, Richard Whitley, a notable film and television writer. Hill was raised as a Catholic, attending and graduating from Immaculate Conception High School. After high school, Hill attended Purdue University and graduated with a fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire & Steel
''Fire & Steel'' is a 1978 board game published by Game Designers' Workshop. Gameplay ''Fire & Steel'' is a wargame that depicts 15 mm Napoleonic miniatures battles in Europe between 1808 and 1858. The components consisted of: Boxed set (6" x 9") consisting of: Rule book (56 pgs. 5.5" x 8.5"; staple bound with card stock covers); Organization book (56 pgs., 5.5" x 8.5", staple bound with card stock covers) player aid card - fire & melee combat, moral and casualty calculation tables (double sided, 8.5" x 11", center fold card stock (blue)); three player aid cards (double sided, 5.5" x 8.5", card stock) consisting of one terrain effects card (green); one unit capabilities chart (pink/red), and one weather and officer casualty chart (white); two player aid cards (double sides, 5.5" x 8.5", card stock) being identical unit roster charts meant to provide masters for reproduction (white); 23 player aid cards (mixed single and double sided, 5.5" x 8.5", card stock, three hole punched) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ral Partha Enterprises
Formed in 1975, Ral Partha Enterprises, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, is now known as ''Ral Partha Legacy Ltd.'' and produces miniature figures in 25 mm, 30 mm, 15 mm, and 54 mm scale. The company's products are made by spin-casting metal alloys which depict soldiers, adventurers and creatures that have been inspired by history and fiction. Their miniatures are sold at gaming conventions, in hobby shops, and by internet and mail order for use in role playing games, wargaming, dioramas, competitive painting, and collecting. The company began as a basement enterprise undertaken by a group of wargamers around the talents of Tom Meier, a 16-year-old sculptor. The company grew with the increasing popularity of board and role-playing games. By 1982 Ral Partha products were sold worldwide."Hanging Out: Warriors & Wizards" by Perry Cooper, ''Cincinnati Best and Worst'' magazine, Volume 16, Number 1, October 1982 pp. 18–25. Ral Partha is best known for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfidious Albion (magazine)
''Perfidious Albion'' was a board game and wargame magazine, published and edited by Charles Vasey in the United Kingdom. History In the early 1970s, Charles Vasey, a chartered accountant and wargames hobbyist, began to write reviews of the games that he played for small games magazines such as ''Military Modelling'' and ''Strategy & Tactics''. Vasey and his acquaintance Geoff Barnard, came to believe that other reviews being published at the time were either too deferential to the major game publishers such as SPI, or were written for game designers and publishers, not for the consumers who were buying the games. When the 1975 publication of the popular wargame ''Tobruk'' by Avalon Hill resulted in more shallow reviews, Barnard convinced Vasey that they should create a zine dedicated to in-depth, objective and critical reviews of wargames. The result was ''Perfidious Albion'', a small self-published zine focussed on miniatures and board wargames. It was intermittent in frequency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodger MacGowan
Rodger B. MacGowan (born 1948) is an artist, game developer, art director and magazine publisher who has been active in the board wargame industry since the 1970s. MacGowan is a prolific artist of cover art for wargames, and the wargaming magazine he founded, ''Fire & Movement'', won the Charles S. Roberts Award several times while under his editorial control. Early life Rodger MacGowan was born in San Francisco in 1948, the son of career Marine Donald L. MacGowan, and grew up on various Marine bases in Hawaii, North Carolina, New Jersey, and California. Rodger was a budding artist from a young age and using his personal observations of military life, he began creating military history illustrations in the seventh grade. While attending Oceanside High School in California, he was introduced to Avalon Hill's '' Gettysburg'' by a friend, and his parents purchased a copy for him while vacationing at the Gettysburg battlefield. Hooked on the board wargaming hobby, MacGowan started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire & Movement
''Fire & Movement: The Forum of Conflict Simulation'' was a magazine devoted to wargames, both traditional board wargames and computer wargames. It was founded by Rodger MacGowan in 1975, and began publication the following year. In February 1982, Fire & Movement was acquired by Steve Jackson Games. In January 1985 the magazine was sold again to Diverse Talents Inc. (DTI). In 1988, World Wide Wargames (also known as 3W) acquired Diverse Talents Inc. (DTI), publisher of ''Fire & Movement'', '' Battleplan'' and ''Space Gamer'', leading to a complete merger of the two companies. 3W then continued on to publish four gaming magazines simultaneously. John Vanore was the only "outsider" appointed to editorial duties, taking the reins of ''F&M'' at the time. ''F&M'' is now published by Decision Games. In January 2010, the last "print" edition of the magazine was published. Editing and layout had been outsourced to Jon Compton to preserve the independence of the magazine content, but subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Of Iron (board Game)
''Cross of Iron'' is a tactical board wargame published in 1979 by Avalon Hill as an expansion — called a "gamette" by the company — to their very popular 1977 wargame ''Squad Leader''. The game simulates small group tactical combat during World War II on the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front. Description ''Cross of Iron'' is a two-player wargame that builds upon the rules for ''Squad Leader'', including: * Expanded German and Soviet Order of Battle, orders of battle, including Axis Minor infantry types. * The original handful of vehicle and ordnance types in ''Squad Leader'' are expanded to include a large variety of vehicles that saw service on the Eastern Front. * Expanded armor and artillery systems. * The "design for effect" philosophy that had guided ''Squad Leader'' development gave way in the case of tank combat to "actual data" taking priority over "effect data." * The addition of white-on-black counters to represent the Waffen SS. * Complete orders of ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Game Fair
Origins Game Fair is an annual gaming convention that was first held in 1975. Since 1996, it has been held in Columbus, Ohio at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Origins is run by The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Origins was chartered to serve gaming in general, including wargaming and miniatures gaming. Origins is the site of the annual Origins Awards ceremony. For many years, the Charles S. Roberts Awards for historical boardgames were presented at Origins, but these are now presented at the World Boardgaming Championships. Board games, trading card games, LARPs and role-playing games are also popular at Origins. Origins Game Fair was formerly known as the Origins International Game Expo. The name was changed in the summer of 2007. Origins typically has a theme each year, which affects some of the events and decorations like banners or art, and the Origins mascot will be depicted wearing an outfit related to the theme as well. The theme in 2012 was T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc William Miller
Marc William Miller is a wargame and role-playing game designer and author. Early career After serving in the U.S. Army, Miller continued his studies at Illinois State University in 1972 under the G.I. Bill. There he joined the ISU Game Club, created by Rich Banner and Frank Chadwick.DiceCast Special Holiday Interview Episodby Polymancer Studios. Podcast, includes interview with Marc Miller Banner obtained a grant that funded the printing of blank hex sheets (suitable for making war-game maps). Adding new members Loren K. Wiseman and John Harshman, the ISU Game Club drafted a variety of designs. Some of these designs were derivatives of existing games, and had generic names like ''Guerre'' and ''Swamp''. while others were amalgamations, such as ''Triplanetary''. In 1973, after being convinced by Miller, Chadwick and Banner, Illinois State University created SimRAD (Simulation Research, Analysis, and Design), a college program where students and teachers designed games. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
