Als Avalon Hill noch Monarch Printing gehörte? Bist Du sicher? Ich habe damals aus der Szene gehört, Kurt Schilling hat von Hasbro die Lizenz gekauft.
Hmm, Du scheinst recht zu haben, dabei war ich mir so sicher.
Allerdings spielte sich damals alles innerhalb von nur wenigen Wochen ab.
Hier ein Auszug aus einem offenen Brief von Curt Schilling (MMP), abgedruckt im ASL Magazin View From the Trenches # 29/30 (1999):
"I'll skip the long and winding road that is MMP, ASL,
AH and everyone else' history and cut to late 1998. Late in
1998 we learned from AH that Hasbro was going to be
purchasing the rights to all AH titles. We were pretty stunned
at the news. Our immediate thoughts were to our existing
agreement with AH regarding ASL, and to the future of both
ASL and MMP. I immediately placed some phone calls to Hasbro
to find out who I needed to correspond with and what could be
done with regards to the future of ASL. After weeks of dead
ends I was put in contact with a lady named Gail Steiner. We
arranged a ftf meeting, instead of sending her a 10 pound box
of chocolates, for the following week and I, along with Carl Fago
and Brian Youse, flew to Hasbros HQ to attend the meeting.
Fast forward a bit into 1999, January to be exact, and we had
reached an agreement whereby MMP now had EXCLUSIVE
license to all Trademarks and Copyrights owned by Hasbro
concerning the Advanced Squad Leader gaming system. We
were euphoric to say the least"
