The Eon Product Story

[Eric Robert Jablow]

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

--E. Fudd--

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>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.

What!? You don't like moons!?
What can introduce more fun in a game than turning over a little round piece
of card that says "You must sing a little song about your alien power"?
Though I must admit that the moon that makes everyone hum (on pain of loss of
property) is a pain.

Pete "Warpish" Strover
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