***************** Fine Games for Players & Collectors ***************** ** now located at: 2078 Madrona St., North Bend, OR 97459-2143 USA *** ******** 541-756-4711 866-690-7879 M.Dean@FineGames.com ****** Update #1 4 April 1995 WELCOME to the first installment of my new--and permanent--method of distributing my electronic catalogs. Rather than send many large files by email, all file are now always available to you in compact (zipped) format. These updates by email will contain ONLY news and other info of interest to active gamers and collectors. You'll then download copies of my catalog at your convenience. (But let me know if you need help.) C O N T E N T S FTP SITE OPENS ........... Fine Games' catalog now OnLine ! Fine Games NEWS .......... What's going on at Fine Games NEW Games ................ Newly released games Games TO BE RELEASED ..... Games expected to be released shortly Games GOING Out-of-Print.. Games known to be low in stock Games GONE Out-of-Print .. Games no longer available new Yes, I BUY & TRADE GAMES . My game BUYING practices F T P S I T E N O W O P E N ! DOWNLOAD CATALOGS at will using FTP on the internet. Using your FTP tools, set your path to FTP.FineGames.com, then navigate to the PUB/VENDORS/FINEGMS subdirectory. [REVISED 4/4] There, you'll find a handy little README.TXT file detailing the contents of the various files & catalogs available. If you want a quick and complete update of all available catalogs, download the ALL_3CAT.ZIP file (90k). (NOTE: capitalization here is used for clarity; actual file names are in all small letters.) WWW BROWSERS can access these files using the path given above. You can also use email to request that the files be sent to you. Finally, I'll send copies by email for those who don't have the required tools. Just let me know if you need help. YOUR SUGGESTIONS influence the range of catalogs I make available here. If you'd like to see stuff listed in a way more useful to you, please let me know. Any comments, for better or worse, are welcome. N E W S CREDIT CARD users are now better off as the effect of losing the cash discount is now 35% less; you add only 3.1% to cash prices by using CCs. My 800 NUMBER is now available. Call 866-690-7879 to place an order or reserve games. Note that this number may be transferred to a voice mail service at times; please leave a full message. Begin with your name & phone #, speaking S-L-O-W-L-Y. MORE FREQUENT CATALOG UPDATES now possible because of the internet. In fact, I've double the speed of updates with this release. And you're getting first crack at what's listed! VALENTINE'S CATALOG was my most successful ever. Thanks to every one of you, my valued customers! And in case you'd like to compare this to other game suppliers, on average, orders were shipped within 3 days of receipt of payment in the last 6 weeks. For all of 1994, my average was 6.5 days. FINE GAMES WEB SITE is being developed. I'd like to add some nice graphics to my WWW pages. So if you have any digitized game-related graphics in any DOS-based format please let me know. I will pay $ for those I use. N E W L Y A R R I V E D G A M E S The following games were released recently. All prices are net cash, representing 30% off current list price, for NEW games ordered for you. REBELS & REDCOATS I & II - 2 quad games including various battles from the American Revolution. Just out. $21 ea. STALINGRAD PC - Computer game of the German and Soviet offensives along Volga, 1942-3 using the V4V / World at War system. BIG game. $49. IRON DRAGON - Empire Builder RR system applied to a hypothetical continent w/ nice touches such as teleportation. RECOMMENDED. $21. DIXIE: 1st BULL RUN, 2nd - Reprinting of popular card game of First Bull Run. Each deck contains 60 of 200 total cards. $5.60/deck. APRIL'S HARVEST - Gamers' newest Civil War series game covers Grant's defense at Shiloh. RECOMMENDED for any Civil War fiend. $20.30. DELUXE ALEXANDER (2nd) - Substantial revision & enhancement of this highly popular game of (now) 10 battles of Alex. $35. ACHTUNG SPITFIRE! - Detailed air-air/ground combat during first 3 years of WW2 in the West. Just out. $28. COMMAND AT SEA - Its been out a while, but what a game! Miniatures- oriented tabletop game covering tactical air & naval combat at the plane & ship level. Highly detailed data on all craft & weapons used thru 1943. Designed by Larry Bond, designer of Harpoon. $35. ECHELONS OF FIRE - New collectable card game of modern era, low level tactical combat. Essentially an enhanced Up Front using state of art graphics. $6.30/deck. MASTERING MAGIC CARDS - for those lost in Magic, this new book is an excellent guide to constructing more competitive decks. $11.20. G A M E S D U E SHIPS IN FLAMES and WIF ANNUAL '94 are now postponed to May. DAMN! Clash of Arms' COMMAND AT SEA PLAYERS BOOK & BORDODINO '41 are due within a couple of weeks. CofA also expects to reissue its ALBUERA & TALAVERA La Bataille-series games, and add a new title, CORUNNA-ESPAGNOL, this month. GMT will release SINAI FRONT in March also. April should see release of the 2nd edition of Columbia's BOBBY LEE and WEST FRONT, as well as initial release of their EUROFRONT. Avalon Hill Should finally release their anxiously awaited game of the '62 Shenandoah campaign, STONEWALL IN THE VALLEY, in a couple of weeks. GERONIMO, a strategic level game of the Indian Wars, might come out in April. Maybe. GLOBAL SURVIVAL is now due for release in May. Mayfair may have its newest RR game, 1856, out in April. And GRD may also release FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. G A M E S G O I N G O U T - O F - P R I N T Clash of Arms' EDELWEISS is nearly gone; only a handful of copies are left. $33.60. On their way out, but still readily available, are CofA's KOLIN $30.80, GMT's SPQR 2nd $28, Mayfair's NORTH AMERICAN RAILS $17.50, and Excalabre's GREAT WESTERN RAILS $29.40. G A M E S N O W O U T - O F - P R I N T Two Gamers' Civil War games are now out of print, BLOODY ROADS SOUTH and BARREN VICTORY, as is Avalon Hill's TURNING POINT STALINGRAD *EXPANSION KIT*. AH said that the kit will NOT be reprinted. (Note that TPS game itself is NOT endangered.) GUDERIAN'S BLITZKRIEG is all but out-of-print; copies are available thru the Gamers and I have a few copies too. Several S&T issues are now in sketchy supply. OPERATION SHOCKTROOP #168, SAVAGE STATION #166, BALKAN WARS #164, and ROMAN-CIVIL WAR #157 are all very hard or impossible to obtain. Y E S, I B U Y & T R A D E G A M E S I am always looking to buy or trade quality games at the right price. In case you have games you're looking to sell or trade, read on... I don't have any fixed rules on games' value. Instead, I try to move with the market as much as possible. So, what I prefer to do is negotiate a purchase price for some or all of your for-sale collection. So call or email me with a list describing what you've got. You should also know that: I maintain high standards of quality. So, I rarely buy incomplete games and expect games I do buy to arrive in the condition described to me. I need you to describe your game to me in detail, including all its flaws. EVERY game has flaws; its just much better to learn about them before than after making a deal. I need you to containerized all punched playing pieces before shipment. This may be as simple as putting a bit of magic tape on each of the corners of a counter tray, or making sure that counters are in ziplocks. Cleaning up 400 free floating counters in a box takes time and reduces your games' value. I need you to ship the games properly. NO ENVELOPES for boxed games. Games should be boxed to minimize weight while protecting all the contents regardless of how the box is manhandled. I can advise you on how to do this.