#Stellar Conquest
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Hi, Bill. I do remember you at one of the shows doing a demo of the flight
controller game. A lot happened since then. Mick Cullum got fed up and quit
as the supervisor. David Kuijt, still without an american work visa after
two years, got stopped at the Canadian boarder and cannot get in again. We
got a great supervisor in the form of Arnold Hendrick, designer of the
Dwarfstar boardgames "Grav Armor" and "Space Viking". Then the great purge
happened. David Kuijt snuck back in the states and visted us. He asked me
not to mention to the Boss (ol' Eric Dott himself) that he was here. Eric
called and asked if David had been there. Feeling more loyalty to David
than Eric, I said no. Eric found out, got angry, Arnold and Frank backed me
up, and we ALL got fired. There are now no computer programmers at Avalon
Hill's computer division. It's all being done by out of house programmers,
and co-ordinated by the only guy left in the department, a Mr. Bill
Peschel. Arnold is now working at MicroProse, I'm writing Mac and Amiga
software for Dr Thant, and I don't know what happened to Frank. Gulf Strike
still is on Computer Gaming World's list of top games, but then again, so
is The Guns of Fort Defiance.