> Call to Power came out to mediocre-at-best reviews and sank like a stone, ending Activision's dream of taking over the franchise. Eh, it did well enough that

> Call to Power came out to mediocre-at-best reviews and sank like a stone, ending Activision's dream of taking over the franchise. Eh, it did well enough that Activision made a sequel. What really prevented them from taking over the franchise was that their license was a one-game deal: the sequel was released as simply Call to Power 2, without any reference to Civilization. Of course, they never made a third one because the second game sank (aside from the criticisms of the original, the sequel didn't even have name recognition going for it). Activision also did something really cool and released the sequel's source when they EOL'd it, too. > just a couple of months after the Avalon Hill settlement the company was sold to Hasbro, at which point it was more or less dismantled and became just another zombie brand. Oddly enough, this doesn't go far enough in summarizing the insanity of the acquisitions of that time period. Hasbro actually bought both MicroProse and AH at the same time, and then they turned around and sold off their entire video game business to Infogrames (now Atari) three years later. In fact, it was actually Infogrames/Atari who killed MicroProse: Hasbro was perfectly willing to keep them around as a subsidiary.