Creator / Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games is a gaming company based in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson (The American one, not the British co-founder of Games Workshop). While it began as a Tabletop RPG company, it has branched out to produce Card Games, Board Games, miniatures games, dice games and Video Games in conjunction with Origin Systems. Their current Cash-Cow Franchise is the Munchkin Card Games.

In 1990, Steve Jackson Games was raided by the U.S. Secret Service, which believed that their in-process book GURPS Cyberpunk was a manual for computer crime. The Secret Service seized computers and other materials from the Steve Jackson Games offices. Steve Jackson sued and won damages, but still had to reconstitute the book from playtest notes and other materials, as they never got all of the seized computers back. The 'Steve Jackson Affair' was one of the cases that led to the foundation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Steve Jackson Games has published a lot of games over the years, including:

Tabletop RPGs

• The Fantasy Trip^note Originally published by Metagaming Concepts. After the company went out of business in 1983 and its founder Howard Thompson vanished from the face of the planet, the rights to The Fantasy Trip became inaccessible to Steve Jackson until 2016, when his company were finally able to republish it.
• GURPS and, based on that:
  • The Discworld Roleplaying Game
  • Dungeon Fantasy^note A boxed game using a streamlined and focused version of GURPS, more appropriate for newcomers.
  • Many other GURPS Settings
• In Nomine
• Toon
• The Munchkin RPG^note Semi-parodic supplements integrating ideas from the card game with the d20 System.
• Killer: The Game of Assassination, a variant of Assassin.
• Tribes, a game of prehistoric adventure.
• Undead^note Doubled as a more simple board game.

Card Games

• Munchkin
• Illuminati and Illuminati: New World Order
• Car Wars the Card Game
• Ninja Burger
• Battle Cattle
• Lord of the Fries
• Hacker
• Cowpoker
• Spooks
• Hack & Slash

Dice Games

• Cthulhu Dice
• Zombie Dice
• Proteus

Board Games

• The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
• Car Wars
• OGRE
• Battlesuit, a game of individual infantry-level combat set in the same world as OGRE.
• Undead^note Doubled as a more complex roleplaying game.
• Raid on Iran
• Necromancer
• Kung Fu 2100
• One-Page Bulge
• Orbit War
• Revolution
• The Stars Are Right, yet another game loosely inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Board Game, which is based on guess which film?

Video Games

• Autoduel
• OGRE^note Based on the board game, obviously.
• Ultracorps

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