[net.games] Is SPI Really Dead

tmh (08/18/82)

According to Rich Banner (who is president of the games
manufactures association) and some other GDW people SPI
knew it was going under probably since the summer 81.
They were holding out and hoping for a miricle.  They
ended up about 1 million in debt.  TSR had loaned lots
of money to SPI and when SPI defaulted took over the
company.  At that point SPI consisted of titles to games
the designers having taken off for other places (Avalon
Hill and a new company).  About forty of the SPI titles
it turns out were owned by their designers and not the
company and exSPI games produced by Avalon Hill are
these games.  TSR plans to continue to produce the games
to get some of its money back, but it looks as if
magazine subscriptions are lost.

				Cheerio;
				Tom Harris
				ihldt!tmh