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| x Fantasy Flight Games |
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Lord of the Rings |
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games.
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| Kingdoms | |||
| Runebound | |||
| Descent: Journeys in the Dark | |||
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| x Parker Brothers |
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Masterpiece |
Parker Brothers is a toy and game manufacturer and brand. Over nearly 130 years, the company published more than 1800 games; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo (known as Clue in North America), Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Ouija,...
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| Hey Pa! There's a Goat on the Roof | |||
| Monopoly | |||
| Escape from Atlantis | |||
| Sorry! | |||
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| x The Gamers |
The Gamers was a wargaming company founded and run by Dean Essig in Homer, Illinois. Their distinction was the focus on a few series, with special rules for each individual game. This made it easier to play new games within a series that was well...
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| x Deep Thought Games, LLC |
Deep Thought Games, LLC is a low-volume publisher of board games, specializing in the 18XX series. It was formed by John Tamplin and his wife, Jeanette Allen, in 2005.
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| x John Wallis |
John Wallis, with his sons John Wallis Jr. and Edward Wallis, was the most prolific publisher of board games of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The company occupied a number of sites in London, including:
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| x Steve Jackson Games |
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Chez Geek |
Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.
Founded in 1980, six years after the birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and...
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| GURPS | |||
| GURPS Cyberpunk | |||
| Munchkin | |||
| Illuminati | |||
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| x Mongoose Publishing | Traveller |
Mongoose Publishing is a prolific British manufacturer of role-playing, miniatures, and card games, actively publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the popular science fiction properties Babylon 5, Judge Dredd, and...
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| Babylon 5: A Call to Arms | |||
| Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game | |||
| Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game: 2nd Edition | |||
| x Rio Grande Games | Hare and Tortoise |
Rio Grande Games is a board game publisher based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The company primarily imports and localizes foreign language German-style board games.
In 1995, Jay Tummelson began working for Mayfair Games. At that time, Mayfair had...
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| Jambo | |||
| Torres | |||
| Caylus | |||
| Ra | |||
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| x Flying Buffalo |
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Tunnels and Trolls |
Flying Buffalo Incorporated (FBI) is a Scottsdale, Arizona game company that publishes role playing games, card games, gaming materials, and runs Play-by-mail games.
Founded by Rick Loomis and Steve MacGregor in 1970, the company got its start...
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| Starweb | |||
| x Days of Wonder |
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Ticket to Ride |
Days of Wonder is a board game publisher based in the United States and France. It specialises in German-style board games. Days of Wonder has published games in English, French, German and Korean.
In 2004, Days of Wonder received the Spiel des...
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| Ticket to Ride: Europe | |||
| x Tilsit Editions | Cartagena |
Tilsit Editions is a French game publisher started in 1997 by Didier Jacobée. It makes board games, strategy games, games for kids, and other such games.
Tilsit also distributes a number of French versions of Kosmos games, but the collaboration will...
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| Blue Moon | |||
| Charmed board games | |||
| x Battleline Publications |
Battleline Publications was a board wargame company founded by Steven Peek in 1973. Output was relatively low at first, with each game being funded by sales of the one before, but their games were generally well-respected. Several were re-published...
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| x Jeux Descartes | Republic of Rome |
Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for...
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| Castle | |||
| Vinci | |||
| x Looney Labs | Zendo |
Looney Labs is a small game company based in College Park, Maryland, USA. It is named after its founders, Andrew Looney and Kristin Looney.
The company is probably best known for its card games, especially Fluxx, whose rules and goals change as the...
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| Cosmic Coasters | |||
| Icehouse | |||
| Treehouse | |||
| x Asmodée Éditions | Wyatt Earp |
Asmodée Éditions is a French publisher of board games, card games and role-playing games (RPGs). The company was founded in 1995 by former employees of the RPG publisher Siroz Productions. The company publishes its own games, as well as French...
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| Formula Dé | |||
| x Designs in Creative Entertainment |
Designs in Creative Entertainment is a board game publisher started in 1992 by Mark Frazier.
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| x Chieftain Products |
Chieftain Products was a Canada-based toy & game company which released games such as Scrabble, Atmosfear, etc. Funded in 1972 by Edward J. Scott in Toronto, Ontario, this toy company was closed down in 1996 after the release of Atmosfear 4. It...
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| x Queen Games |
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Shogun |
Queen Games is a publisher of German-style board games.
Queen Games produces high-quality family strategy games. One of their more popular releases is Alhambra, which won the Spiel des Jahres and placed 2nd in the Deutscher Spiele Preis in 2003....
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| Wallenstein | |||
| Alhambra | |||
| x Tresham Games |
Tresham Games is a board games publisher featuring the games of Francis Tresham. It was formed by Francis after he sold Hartland Trefoil, Ltd to Microprose in 1998.
Tresham Games has published several 18XX games, including 1829 Mainline and various...
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| x Eurogames | Grass card game |
Eurogames is a publisher of board games, originally founded as Jeux Rexton (Rexton Games) in 1984 to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, Cry Havoc and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more...
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| Formula Dé | |||
| Castle | |||
| x GMT Games |
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Sword of Rome |
GMT Games, probably the most prolific of the wargame companies in the 1990s and 2000s, was founded in 1990. The current management and creative team includes Tony Curtis, Rodger MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, and Andy Lewis. The company has become well...
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| x Mayfair Games |
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Settlers of Catan |
Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the United States and United Kingdom. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English, most notably the The Settlers of Catan series licensed from Kosmos.
Mayfair...
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| Elasund | |||
| Hue | |||
| Modern Art | |||
| Löwenherz | |||
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| x Avalanche Press |
Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. An extremely prolific company, they have produced many respected contributions to the wargame community, most notably the The...
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| x JKLM Games |
JKLM Games is a board game publishing company based in the United Kingdom.
As of 2008, JKLM games has published:
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| x Zoch |
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Niagara |
Zoch GmbH is a German publisher of board games.
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| x Kenzer & Company |
Kenzer & Company (KenzerCo) is a Waukegan (Illinois, USA) based publisher of comic books, role-playing games, board games, card games, and miniature games.
They are known for the Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting and for their own HackMaster and...
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| x Amigo Spiele | Elfenland |
Amigo Spiele is a German board and card game publisher. Many of their games have won Spiel des Jahres awards, and many have been published in English by Rio Grande Games.
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| Der Untergang von Pompeji | |||
| x Kosmos |
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Jambo |
Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. is a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded in 1822 by Johann Friedrich Franckh. In the nineteenth century the company published the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff as well as works by Wilhelm...
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| Settlers of Catan | |||
| Elasund | |||
| Lost Cities | |||
| Barbarossa | |||
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| x Operational Studies Group |
Operational Studies Group, also known as OSG, is a publisher of tabletop wargames mostly devoted to the wars of Napoleon I. Some of their more notable games include Napoleon at Leipzig, Napoleon at Bay and Bonaparte in Italy.
OSG is run by Kevin...
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| x Late for the Sky Production Company |
Late for the Sky Production Company is a U.S. based board game production and manufacturing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were founded in 1984. They are best known for their manufacture and production of games based on Monopoly. The...
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| x Wizards of the Coast |
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Pokémon Trading Card Game |
Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, the company popularized the...
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| Netrunner | |||
| Magic: The Gathering | |||
| Pivot | |||
| Dungeons & Dragons | |||
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| x Universal Games |
Universal Games is a Nevada company that produced such board games as Merger, Titanic: The Board Game, and the Apollo 13 edition of Solarquest.
In 1965, their address was in Houston, Texas. Universal Games released Merger, a financial game for 2-4...
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| x Cheapass Games | Button Men |
Cheapass Games is a game company founded and run by game designer James Ernest, based in Seattle, Washington.
Cheapass Games operates on the philosophy that most game owners have plenty of dice, counters, play money, etc., so there is no need to...
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| Bitin' Off Hedz | |||
| Girl Genius: The Works | |||
| Get Out | |||
| Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond | |||
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| x Milton Bradley Company |
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The Game of Life |
The Milton Bradley Company is an American game company established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the largest game manufacturer in the United States...
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| Square Mile | |||
| Pretty Pretty Princess | |||
| Cheyenne | |||
| Sergeant Preston | |||
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| x West End Games |
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role playing, and war games. It was founded in 1974 in New York, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its current and past product lines include Paranoia, Torg, Shatterzone, Men In Black, DC...
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| x Wild Heaven Productions |
Wild Heaven Productions is a Japanese board game publisher run by Yasutaka Ikeda.
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| x CSE Games |
Card Sports & Entertainment Inc. (CSE Games) is a games publisher and licensed-products manufacturing company incorporated in 2004. Its main products are the award-winning boardgames Card Football and NHL Ice Breaker.
In early 2009, CSE Games will...
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| x 2F-Spiele |
2F-Spiele is a German publisher of board games located in Bremen. Most of its offerings are designed by Friedemann Friese.
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| x Hans im Glück |
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Fjords |
Hans im Glück is a German board and card game publisher. Many of their games have been published in English by Rio Grande Games.
They are named after a story from the Brothers Grimm, called "Hans in Luck" or "Lucky Hans" in English.
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| Carcassonne | |||
| Tigris and Euphrates | |||
| Amun-Re | |||
| Drunter und Drüber | |||
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| x Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. |
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Amarillo Design Bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board wargames. The company is a successor to Task Force Games, and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based in Amarillo,...
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| x Ravensburger |
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Hare and Tortoise |
Ravensburger Spieleverlag GmbH is a German game company. It is a leader in the European puzzle market.
The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier with seat in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with...
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| Torres | |||
| Ra | |||
| The Princes of Florence | |||
| San Juan | |||
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| x Überplay | Ra |
Überplay Entertainment was a board game publishing company located in St. George, Utah. As of April 2008, it had ceased operations. The company held three separate brands: Überplay provided family-oriented "Euro-style" board games; Inspiration Games...
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| Hoity Toity | |||
| Alhambra | |||
| New England | |||
| x Waddingtons |
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Subbuteo |
Waddingtons was a publisher of card and board games in the United Kingdom. The company was founded by John Waddington of Leeds, England and Wilson Barratt, under the name Waddingtons Limited. The name was changed to Waddington's House of Games, then...
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| Monopoly | |||
| Cluedo | |||
| Monopoly Junior | |||
| Camelot | |||
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| x Habermaaß GmbH |
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Habermaaß GmbH (HABA) is a toy manufacture and a publisher of board games, based in Bad Rodach, Germany. The company specialises in children's games, and six of its games have won the Spiel des Jahres award for best children's game. Their toys are...
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| x Nexus Editrice | Wings of War |
Founded in 1993, Nexus Editrice is an Italian game publisher. Nexus produces board games, role-playing games, card games, miniature games, publishes magazines devoted to games, with original products and licensed editions of major international...
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| x Simulations Publications | Cemetery Hill |
Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an influential American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship Strategy & Tactics, in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced...
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| x Miro |
Miro is a game manufacturer in France. Its most notable publication is "La Conquete du Monde," the first version of Risk ever produced.
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| x Guidon Games | Chainmail |
Guidon Games produced board games and rulebooks for wargaming with miniatures, and in doing so influenced Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.), the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons. The Guidon Games publishing imprint was the property of Lowry's...
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| x Yaquinto Publications |
Yaquinto Publications was the wargame publishing arm of the Robert Yaquinto Printing Company of Dallas, Texas. In March 1979 Robert Yaquinto hired Steve Peek and Craig Taylor, both experienced wargame designers with several famous titles in their...
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| x Simulations Canada |
Simulations Canada is the name of a Canadian board wargame publisher established in Nova Scotia in 1977. The company was founded by Stephen Newberg and was one of only a handful of companies devoted to publishing wargames at that time. Other...
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| x Selchow and Righter |
Selchow and Righter was a 19th century Bay Shore, New York game manufacturer best known for the games Parcheesi and Scrabble.
It dates back to 1867 when it was founded as E.G. Selchow & Co. In 1880, to reflect his new partnership with John Righter,...
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| x International Team |
International Team France was a wargame company, founded by Renzo Angelosanto and Marco Donadoni in 1979. International Team Italy existed previously. They later expanded into roleplaying games and some less simulationistic games. They declared...
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| x J. W. Spear & Sons |
J. W. Spear and Sons was a significant manufacturer of board games during the 20th century. The company was registered in Fürth, near Nuremberg, Germany in 1879 producing goods such as table mats, photo frames and waste-paper baskets. By the turn of...
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| x Intellect Games | Hare and Tortoise |
Intellect Games made a series of board games in the 1970s. Many of these games were notable in that they did not rely on chance. The outcome of the games was dependent on tactics.
Hare and Tortoise (1973) — A race game where forward movement cost...
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| x Abacus Spiele | Hare and Tortoise | ||
| x The Board Game Company | Hare and Tortoise | ||
| x Capcom |
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Settlers of Catan |
Alph Lyla, also known as Alfh Lyra or Alpha Lyla, is Capcom's "house band" composed of Capcom developers. Their best known work is most likely the soundtrack of the popular fighting-game Street Fighter II.
Some well-known members of this band are:...
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| Cities and Knights of Catan | |||
| x Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | Infinite Armies |
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center, Inc., or BTRC is an American game publishing company most famous for publishing the Timelords and EABA role-playing games.
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| x Upper Deck Company |
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World of Warcraft Trading Card Game |
The Upper Deck Company, LLC (colloquially as Upper Deck and Upper Deck Authenticated, Ltd. in the UK), founded in 1988, is a private company primarily known for producing trading cards.
The company also produces sports related items such as...
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| Bratz Fashion Party Fever Game | |||
| Ani-Mayhem | |||
| Pirates of the Caribbean Trading Card Game | |||
| x Nintendo |
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Pokémon Trading Card Game |
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small...
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