Mayfair Games
| Industry | Board games |
|---|---|
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Ironwind, Inc. |
| Defunct | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, US |
|
Key people
|
Darwin Bromley |
| Products | Role Aids, DC Heroes, Board games |
| Website | www |
| Mayfair Games | |
| Private | |
| Industry | Board games |
| Fate | Reorganized, moved 2001 |
| Successor | Mayfair Games, Inc. |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Iron Crown Enterprises |
| Headquarters | Skokie, Illinois, US |
| Products | Train games, Card games, Dice games |
| Services | Foreign and domestic game distribution |
| Website | mayfairgames.com |
| Private | |
| Industry | Board games |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Skokie, Illinois, US |
| Products | Train games, Card games, Dice games |
| Services | Foreign and domestic game distribution |
| Website | mayfairgames.com |
Mayfair Games is an American publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games that also licenses Euro-style board games to publish them in English. The company licensed worldwide English-language publishing rights to The Settlers of Catan series between 1996 and 2016.
Mayfair Games was founded in 1981 by Darwin Bromley in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The company was created to publish Empire Builder, a railroad game designed by Bromley and Bill Fawcett. In 1982 Mayfair Games expanded its focus to include Role Aids, a line of role-playing game supplements.
In 1993, Mayfair was sued by TSR, Inc., who argued that Role Aids—advertised as compatible with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons—violated their 1984 trademark agreement. While the court found that some of the line violated their trademark, the line as a whole did not violate the agreement, and Mayfair continued publishing the line until the rights were bought by TSR.
In 1996, Mayfair Games became the publisher of The Settlers of Catan in the US.
In 1997, Mayfair shut down for financial reasons, and was subsequently bailed out by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE), who purchased most of the company's assets and restarted operations as Ironwind, Inc. This new company operates publicly under the Mayfair Games trademark.
Pete Fenlon became the CEO of Mayfair Games in 2007 to oversee a major reorganization with a refocusing on core brands, most importantly, the Catan family of games.
...
Wikipedia