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Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games
Private
Industry Game publisher
Founded 1980
Founder Steve Jackson
Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States
Key people
Steve Jackson
Products Munchkin, Chez Geek, Car Wars, Ogre, GURPS
Revenue US$ 8,800,000 gross (2013)
Owner Steve Jackson
Number of employees
43 full time (2013)
Website sjgames.com/

Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) 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 before the height of role-playing games, SJGames created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes. SJGames borrowed and expanded upon ideas pioneered by strategy game companies such as Metagaming Concepts, Avalon Hill and TSR. Despite these similarities, SJGames had a unique feel all their own and became popular with their releases. SJGames' early titles were all microgames initially sold in 4×7 inch ziploc bags, and later in the similarly sized Pocket Box. Games such as Ogre, Car Wars, and G.E.V (an Ogre spin-off) were popular during SJGames' early years.

Today SJGames publishes games of numerous varieties (card games, board games, strategy games) and genres (fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror); they also publish the book Principia Discordia, the sacred text of the Discordian religion.


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