- Steve Jackson (US game designer)
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name = Steve Jackson
caption = Steve Jackson signing autographs at Lucca Comics & Games 2006 gaming convention inLucca ,Italy .
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occupation =game designer , Founder ofSteve Jackson Games
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game designer . After working for many years atMetagaming Concepts designing such games as "Ogre" and "The Fantasy Trip ", he left to foundSteve Jackson Games (SJ Games) in the early 1980s. He designed many of thegame s published by SJ Games, such as "Car Wars ", "GURPS ", "Munchkin" and many others.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 ). TheElectronic Frontier Foundation was created at that time to address this and similar cases.Jackson is a 1974 graduate of
Rice University where he was a resident of Baker College before moving toSid Richardson College when it opened in 1971.He is often mistaken for a different Steve Jackson, a British
gamebook andvideo game writer who co-foundedGames Workshop . The confusion is exacerbated by the fact that while the UK Jackson was co-creator of the "Fighting Fantasy " gamebook series, the US Jackson also wrote three books in this series ("Scorpion Swamp ", "Demons of the Deep ", and "Robot Commando "), and the books did not even acknowledge that this was a different Steve Jackson. [ [http://www.io.com/~sj/sjbio.html Steve Jackson - Biography and Public Warning] from Steve Jackson's personal website]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. [ [http://www.io.com/~sj/PirateGame.html Evil Stevie's Pirate Game page] from Steve Jackson's personal website]Recently Jackson has exhibited his elaborate
Chaos Machine at severalscience fiction orwargaming conventions, including the 2006Worldcon . [ [http://blog.wired.com/worldcon/2007/01/chaos_machine.html WorldCon 2006] from "Wired"]References
External links
* [http://www.io.com/~sj/ Steve Jackson's official website]
* [http://www.sjgames.com/SS/ Details on Steve Jackson Games v. US Secret Service]
* [http://www.io.com/~sj/sjbio.html Brief Steve Jackson Biography]
* [http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=espg&stype=dfic Pictures of "Evil Stevie's Pirate Game" on Brickshelf]
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* [http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int031.htm Interview] by Tom Vasel
* [http://www.2600.com/offthehook/mp3files/1993/020393.mp3 Interview on Off The Hook just after the secret service case]
* [http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=62 Pen & Paper listing for Steve Jackson (US)]Persondata
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