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10 Sunday - June 1973
Pentecost - 161st Day - 204 Days to Come

BB and I played SPECTRUM and then the game for HONORABLE RELATIONS. It played well.

Made a presentation model of HONORABLE RELATIONS. Finished the board and the pieces.

Claude called. We discussed my seminar at the INTERNATIONAL GAME SHOW. He suggested starting by saying that we kno don't know what will sell but we do know that a game that has long rules, is played with dice, and is runs for many hours will never sell. I should also mention:
Cultivating new audiences - such as Simulations Inc. is doing.
Push a category til it catches on - like A.H.
Need for a beach game - to succeed TWISTER.
Push game playing in general.
Compare price of a movie with that of a game.

Call from Gary Sherbell. He has a new game called OPTION CHESS that he'd like me to look at. It is regular CHESS with an added deck of cards. The cards allow the pieces to move and also there are "freeze" cards that affect all of that pc. [piece] of either side and "release" cards. Each player has six cards in his hand.
Told him that it sounded interesting and to call me after July 4th.

(cont. from 6/11) [6/14]

they are not getting into catalogs (or he says he knows) but he doesn't know anything about sales to their outlets.

Met Claude and spent some time with him. Signed the check for EXECUTIVE DECISION that a had forgotten to sign when I gave it to him.

Rcd. [received] a letter from Graeme Levin about my failure to answer his last letter concerning my writing for G&P. Also he hasn't heard from Castle Books about AGOG.

Rcd. ALBION #44 (and COURIER nos. 55, 56, and 58). Mentions PANZERBLITZ, DIPLOMACY, LUFTWAFFE, RED STAR/WHITE STAR, MASTER MIND, THE GAME OF NATIONS, ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II, EXTINCTION, FORMULA I, SPEED CIRCUIT, CAR RACING GAME, (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN), PANZERFAUST, BATTLE FLAG Magazine, OPERATION MARKET GARDEN, SHILOH, SALERNO, P.B.I., SECOND GALACTIC WAR, GRAF SPEE, SEA LION, CONFLICT, DUNKERQUE, S&T, MOVES, RICHTHOFEN'S WAR, QUEBEC 1759, 1812, MUF (A "game idea"),AUSTERLITZ, ADMIRALS, L'ATTACQUE, COLDITZ, WARS OF THE ROSES, COLLAPSE OF THE DUAL EMPIRE,
(cont. on 6/9)