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 | | Origins, the "national adventure game convention" (meaning the Midwestern-regional hobby games convention), was founded in 1975 by the Boys from Baltimore, the management of The Avalon Hill Game Company. |
 | | Origins was predated, by some years, by GenCon, originally named for Lake Geneva, where it was located, and originally a fan-run convention. |
 | | In the early days, Origins was larger than GenCon, which was still a small regional; once D&D boomed, however, TSR took over GenCon, made it their house convention, and turned it into the largest such thing in the game industry. |
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