Editing Acquire (section)

== Publication history ==
When [[Sid Sackson]] was a child, he played a [[Milton Bradley Company|Milton Bradley]] gambling-themed board game titled ''Lotto''. When he became a game designer, Sackson reworked the game into a wargame he called ''Lotto War''.  In 1962, Sackson and [[Alex Randolph]] were commissioned by [[3M]] to start a new games division.  When Sackson submitted ''Lotto War'' to 3M the following year, he retitled the game ''Vacation''.  3M suggested changing the name to ''Acquire'', and Sackson agreed. The game was test marketed in several U.S. cities in 1963, and production began in 1964 as a part of the 3M Bookshelf games series.<ref name="HG">{{Cite book | contribution=Acquire | title=[[Hobby Games: The 100 Best]] | last=Shelley | first=Bruce C. | author-link=Bruce Shelley | editor-last=Lowder | editor-first=James | editor-link=James Lowder | publisher=[[Green Ronin Publishing]] | year=2007 | pages=1–4 | isbn=978-1-932442-96-0}}</ref>

In 1976, the 3M game division was sold to [[Avalon Hill]] and ''Acquire'' became part of their bookcase game series. Four years later, Avalon Hill published the computer game  ''[[Computer Acquire]]'' for the [[Commodore PET|PET]], [[Apple II]], and [[TRS-80]].<ref name="SG">{{cite magazine|last= Mishcon |first= Jon |date=November 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|magazine=[[The Space Gamer]]|issue=45|pages=33}}</ref>

[[File:Acquire game play.png|thumb|Example of Acquire game play, Wizards of the Coast edition]]

In 1998, Avalon Hill became part of Hasbro. The new owners reissued a slightly revised version of ''Acquire'' in 2000, in which the hotel chains were replaced by fictitious corporations, though the actual gameplay was unchanged. Hasbro soon thereafter discontinued it.  In the mid-2000s, the game was transferred to a Hasbro subsidiary, [[Wizards of the Coast]] (WotC). In 2008, WotC celebrated "''50 years of Avalon Hill Games"'' with the release of a new edition of ''Acquire'', although the game was not yet 50 years old. In 2016, the game was transferred back to the Hasbro games division and republished in 2016 under the Avalon label, with hotels chains reinstated.