Steve Jackson Games
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Steve Jackson Games creates science fiction based wargames and strategy games. It was founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson. Their games reached their height of popularity during the late 80s and early 90s. Several computer games were developed based on their games.

Their best-known games include:

• INWO, Illuminati New World Order, the trading card game of world domination
• GURPS, the Generic Universal Role Playing System
• In Nomine, a game about Angels and Demons based on the popular French roleplaying game In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas
• The original Illuminati game on which INWO was based
• TOON, the cartoon roleplaying game
• Car Wars, about battle on the highways
• O.G.R.E, the classic simulation of future war
• G.E.V, a spin-off of O.G.R.E. highlighting the G.E.V. vehicle

On March 1, 1990, because of a misunderstanding about a game under development, SJG's offices in Austin, Texas were raided by the U.S. Secret Service. The raid was part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. More than three years later, a federal court awarded damages and attorneys' fees of US$50,000 to SJ Games, ruling that the raid had been careless, illegal, and completely unjustified. Cyberpunk popularizer Bruce Sterling discussed the affair in his book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. The case also motivated the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

External Link

• Steve Jackson Games' official web site

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