from "The
Avalon Hill General Index and Company History, 1952-1980"
Outdoor Survival (1972)
Freelance design redesigned by Avalon Hill
Designed by Jim Dunnigan & Tom Shaw
Development by Don Greenwood
Perhaps the classic example of the difficulty of judging in advance what game will be a marketing success. This off-beat subject matter was undertaken at the request of Stackpole Books who underwrote half of the development costs. The design contract was given once again to Dunnigan, but his submitted version was judged too complicated for the general market at which this product was aimed and Shaw promptly cut it down to size with a “redesign” effort of his own and the whole thing was rewritten by Don Greenwood as his first development job. A very mediocre game in this author’s judgment, it remains to this day one of the company’s best sellers—proving once again the importance of a beautiful box and striking title.
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