Editing TSR, Inc. (section)

====Wargames====
Another acquisition was the 1982 takeover of [[Simulations Publications Inc.]] (SPI), one of the major publishers of wargames and wargaming magazines in North America. SPI was heavily in debt, and TSR agreed to give them a promissory note for several hundred thousand dollars, using SPI's assets as collateral. SPI immediately used the money to pay off its debts, leaving it cash-poor but debt-free. Less than two weeks later, TSR called in the note;<ref name="Grognard">{{cite web | url=https://grognard.com/zines/so/so43.txt | title=Why Did SPI Die? | author=Simonsen, Redmond | authorlink=Redmond A. Simonsen}}</ref> with no cash on hand, SPI was forced to hand over their operation to TSR.<ref name="history" /> Believing the wargame market to be a lucrative opportunity, TSR immediately released several SPI titles that were ready for publication but had been stranded by a lack of money for printing, such as ''[[Battle Over Britain]]'' and ''[[A Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam|A Gleam of Bayonets]]''. TSR also reboxed and republished several popular SPI titles from the mid-1970s under the TSR logo, including ''[[Air War (game)|Air War]]'', ''[[Blue & Gray: Four American Civil War Battles|Blue & Gray]]'', and ''[[Napoleon's Last Battles]]''. But TSR soon learned that the main reason for SPI's large debt was that the wargame market had collapsed. When their wargames failed to sell, TSR halted all new game projects; in reaction, most SPI game designers resigned and moved to rival company [[Avalon Hill]], lured by the formation of a subsidiary specifically for them called [[Victory Games (Avalon Hill)|Victory Games]].<ref name=zoc>{{cite book | last =Lowood | first =Henry | title =Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming | editor-last1 =Harrigan | editor-first1=Pat | editor-last2=Kirschenbaum | editor-first2=Matthew G. | contribution = War Engines | publisher =MIT Press | date =2016 | pages =90 | isbn =9780262033992}}</ref> TSR published a few wargames created by their own in-house designers, and had a hit with ''[[The Hunt for Red October (board game)|The Hunt for Red October]]'', but ten years after the SPI takeover, TSR abandoned the wargame market.