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ENTERPRISE GAMES NEWS Origins Purchases We are back from Origins 2008 with several boxes of new purchases. These will begin to be added to the web site beginning with this update and will continue over the next couple of weeks. The number of wargames in the games auction was the most in a number of years and maybe even the most ever. There were a number of large lots of wargames entered, but there was one giant collection put up for auction. Charles Crain, who was the founder and CEO of Ral Partha miniatures, died last August. As specified in his will, his wargame collection was to be auctioned off and the proceeds would go to pay for his son's college education. His widow and son were in attendance to see his massive collection sold to the Origins auction crowd. Due to the spirited bidding by numerous collectors and retailers, I am sure that they raised a large college fund. I definitely did my share to contribute! Update Your Wantlists We are into the summer game convention season, with Origins coming up in late June and GenCon in mid August. As usual, I will be spending much of my time in the game auctions and in the dealers' area. So if you have items that you want me to find for you, please send me your new or updated game wantlists. The Origins auction has been growing again over the last couple of years and hopefully, there will be even more items entered this year. I will be attending this auction in the audience. However, at the much larger GenCon games auction, I will be in my normal position of working the check-in area. Last year was a record for the GenCon auction with the most items ever sold, over 10,000, and the wargames auction was the largest in several years. You are under no obligation to buy a game that you put on your wantlist. If I find it, I will let you know the condition and price, and then you decide. If you don't want that copy, it goes on our games for sale lists. New Additions We have picked up quite a few new games between our recent attendance at the Little Wars game convention and several game shipments that we have received. Many of these items have already been added to the listings, but there are another hundred or so to be added. I will try to update the site on a frequent basis over the next month or so. Thanks for looking. Non-Sport Trading Cards Added to Website For a number of years, we have sold non-sport trading cards. If you are not familiar with them, these are trading cards with assorted themes other than being sports related. These include movies, television shows, historical topics, art, etc. We have literally hundreds of thousands of these cards in stock which are from the 1950's up to today. I have decided to add these to our web site. They will be located on a separate sub-section of our website which can be accessed from a link on our home page. Due to the large quantity and diversity of these cards, it will literally require months to add our complete inventory. However, I have input a number of the recent card sets. If you are interested in James Bond, Lost, Alias, etc., you can check it out at Enterprise Cards. As I said, we will be adding titles all of the time, but feel free to ask if you are looking for something in particular. Some of the items still to be added include Civil War News and other cards from the 1960's, many sets from the 1970's & 80's, Star Trek and Star Wars sets and many autograph cards. New Listings in Blue As many of you have noticed, I have recently started highlighting new additions to the game listings. As I add new games to the lists, I am highlighting these by the use of blue typing. I am not doing this for common titles but rather for ones which are new to the lists or have some unique feature. This will apply to recently released games as well as out of print ones. Usually, I will leave the blue print in place for about a month. SPI Parts Acquired Enterprise Games has recently acquired a large stock of SPI parts. These include unpunched counter sheets, maps, rule books, charts, etc. The majority of these items were obtained from Lou Zocchi of Gamescience. When SPI closed their doors, he managed to get the rights to purchase assorted SPI parts from their warehouse. Over the years, he used these parts to assemble many SPI games, including Campaign for North Africa, Bloody April, Next War and Atlantic Wall, to name a few. We have now obtained the remainder of the parts from Lou. You may view the listing of available parts by clicking on the following link SPI PARTS Games Listings Changes We have made two main changes to our games listings. Due to the large number of wargame magazines in stock, and in an attempt to make it easier to find, we have added a new section for Wargames Magazines & Supplies. This section will include all wargames magazines, with and without games. So many of the magazines, such as Strategy & Tactics and Command, which were formerly in the listings with the wargames, will now be in this new section. We will also be adding assorted gaming supplies to this section. These will include counter trays, dice and ziplock bags. The more significant change to our listings is that we have eliminated the role playing category. This area represented less than 2% of our on-line sales, so it was not worth the effort to maintain these listings. We will continue to sell role playing products at the conventions that we attend, but we are discontinuing on-line sales of these products. Our efforts will continue to focus on board wargaming, which represents over 90% of our on-line sales.
HOBBY NEWS STORIES To be updated.
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