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One of my earliest gaming memories is of all my aunts and uncles gathered around a table yelling at each other a normally reserved bunch during a night of playing "Pit". We had most of our large family, holiday gatherings at our house and it turned out that the best way to babysit all the kids was to sit them down and get them playing games. As a result, every birthday and Christmas I would get new games that could be played with all my numerous cousins. I guess game inventing was in my blood. Whenever I got a game that I did not think played well enough, I adjusted the rules and added whatever was necessary to make that game a better game. Sometimes I would create an entirely different game or two from the parts I had available. I never imagined that there were people out there inventing these games and making money. I assumed games came from some great creative depository in they sky. As with many beginning inventors, I imagine, I was disgruntled with my current employment, and I had this 'cool' idea for a game but had no idea how to start. Not knowing how lucky I was about to be, I opened my phone book and looked up 'game companies'. Lo and behold there was a small game company, The Game Works, listed there. I gave the number a call and the President/Owner of the Company answered the phone (remember this was a SMALL company). I pitched my idea on the phone (again, not knowing any better), and was politely told that they did not do strategic games. ...

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