Steve Jackson (US)
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Steve Jackson (born ~1952) founded Steve Jackson Games (SJG) in the early 1980s. He designed many of the games published by SJG, such as Car Wars, Ogre, GURPS, Munchkin and many others. Before opening his own company, Steve Jackson also designed The Fantasy Trip, which was published by Metagaming.
The company won a case against the US Secret Service, after a raid of their offices in 1990 (see: Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service). The Electronic Frontier Foundation was created at that time to address this and similar cases.
Jackson is a 1974 graduate of Rice University.
He is often mistaken for Steve Jackson, a British gamebook and video game writer. The confusion is exacerbated by the fact that while the UK Jackson was co-creator of the Fighting Fantasy Game Books series, the US Jackson also wrote three books in this series (Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep, and Robot Commando).[link]
Jackson is also an avid collector of Pirates themed Lego sets. He has written a miniatures game that uses Pirate sets, , and has run it at several conventions. [link].
External links
- [Steve Jackson's official website]
- [Details on Steve Jackson Games v. US Secret Service]
- [Brief Steve Jackson Biography]
- [Pictures of Evil Stevie's Pirate Game on Brickshelf]
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- [Interview] by Tom Vasel
- [Interview on Off The Hook just after the secret service case]
- [Pen & Paper listing for Steve Jackson (US)]
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