An interesting and entertaining recreation of history, MIDWAY is also a highly competitive game of chess-like subtlety played by moving units representing the ships and air formations present during the historic campaign on identical hidden searchboards. Combats are resolved on a separate Battleboard. The first side to find the enemy will be the first side to attack. The American player must decide how best to deploy his limited forces and use his superior knowledge of the Japanese dispositions to stop the coming attack. The Japanese player, with a far more powerful fleet, must scramble to recover from initial disadvantages. Either side can win. Can YOU improve on actual performance, or even change history? YOUR decisions will make the difference.

The Avalon Hill Game Company has been producing strategy games for adults since 1958. Although we publish over 200 boardgames, including Role-Playing, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sports, Leisure Time/Family, and General Interest game lines, the company is probably best known for its line of historical Strategy Games. Over the years, the popularity caused by these games' ability to bring history vividly to life has caused the formation of an entire "wargaming" hobby. Although very popular with hobbyists, these types of games are known for their often esoteric subjects, long playing times and lengthy and detailed rulebooks.

The purpose of the American History series is to introduce new people to this fascinating hobby by providing smaller, faster-playing, yet still challenging strategy games that cover well known episodes in United States history. IN addition to a colorful mapboard and playing pieces, each game contains a short (two-page) "basic game" to allow non-hobbyists to quickly learn the game system. A lengthy "battle manual" in each game provides a detailed illustrated account of the historical event, plus additional rules for those players wishing to play a more detailed and complex version of the game.

NOTE: This all-new 1992 edition of MIDWAY is the second version of this famous title published by the Avalon Hill Game Company since the first was introduced in 1964.