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<blockquote data-quote="Jibril Rashad" data-source="post: 1083545" data-attributes="member: 13802">Atari(formerly Infogrames - may still be known as Infogrames outside the US)hold the rights, since it bought them when it acquired Hasbro Interactive (Hasbro itself bought out Avalon Hill, but sold the rights to the name Civilization off with its interactive division).&nbsp; They are under the impression that reprinting the old Avalon Hill Civ would dilute the brand of their computer game franchise here in the States.&nbsp; They didn't feel the same fear in the European market, so they allowed Eurogames to use the name and reprint the game.&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game,&quot; in Atari/Infogrames' opinion, supported the brand of the computer game franchise, and allowed Eagle Games to produce it, along with other, upcoming board games based on computer games.&nbsp; &nbsp; As opposed to this first one, a board game based on a computer game based on a board game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Edit:&nbsp; Oops- used my CoC PbP ID by mistake. Maerdwyn here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jibril Rashad, post: 1083545, member: 13802"] Atari(formerly Infogrames - may still be known as Infogrames outside the US)hold the rights, since it bought them when it acquired Hasbro Interactive (Hasbro itself bought out Avalon Hill, but sold the rights to the name Civilization off with its interactive division). They are under the impression that reprinting the old Avalon Hill Civ would dilute the brand of their computer game franchise here in the States. They didn't feel the same fear in the European market, so they allowed Eurogames to use the name and reprint the game. "Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game," in Atari/Infogrames' opinion, supported the brand of the computer game franchise, and allowed Eagle Games to produce it, along with other, upcoming board games based on computer games. As opposed to this first one, a board game based on a computer game based on a board game. :rolleyes: Edit: Oops- used my CoC PbP ID by mistake. Maerdwyn here. [/QUOTE]

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