Target Games

Target Games
Target Games AB
Former type Publicly traded Aktiebolag
Industry Role-playing games, Collectible card games, Miniature wargaming & other assorted media
Founded 1980 (1980)
Founder(s) Fredrik Malmberg,[1] Lars-Åke Thor, Johan Arve, Klas Berndal
Defunct 1999 (1999)
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Key people Anders Blixt,[2] Bryan Winter
Products Drakar & Demoner, Mutant, Mutant Chronicles, Kult, Doom Troopers, Warzone
Divisions Target Games Interactive AB
Target Games Adventure AB
Target Games UK
Target Games EIRE

Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings.

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Publications

They published much of their early material in the form of stapled books in G5 (169 by 239 mm) format in a box together with dice.

They released the role-playing games Drakar och Demoner (1982), Mutant (1984) (with the later versions Mutant (1989) Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles), Kult (1991), Chock (1985, a translation of Chill), Sagan om Ringen (1986, a translation of Middle-earth Role Playing) and Stjärnornas Krig (1988, a translation of the WEG Star Wars RPG). Target Games also published Warzone, a miniature wargame.

They also released three generic sourcebooks, Grymkäfts fällor (1987) (translated from the classic game supplement Grimtooth's Traps), Stadsintermezzon (1988) and Skattkammaren (1988) as well as many adventures and sourcebooks for their games. Until the mid 1990s Target Games published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games"). Target Games was reconstructed in 1999 and ceased publication of all of its inventory and the intellectual property rights were transferred to the daughter company Paradox Entertainment, which later became an independent company.[3] Some of the titles have since been licensed to new game companies.

Beside role-playing games, the company had its own magazine named Sinkadus, published translated gamebooks (the Lone Wolf series among others) as well as translated fantasy novels (beginning with a Conan the Barbarian book). Target Games also published a Drakar och Demoner computer game in 1999.

Main products

Drakar & Demoner

Drakar & Demoner was Target Games best selling series of games, today the Drakar & Demoner brand is owned by Swedish company Neogames.[4]

Mutant

1989 version box cover

The name Mutant was used for a series of unrelated science fiction themed role-playing games. The 1984 version was set in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the one in Gamma World. The 1989 version was a cyberpunk game while the later Mutant RYMD and Mutant Chronicles where science fantasy games set in space. All versions used variants of the Basic Role-Playing for rules.

Mutant Chronicles

The Mutant Chronicles brand later became so popular that it spawned multiple spin-off's as well, most notably the Doom Trooper trading card game as well as the Warzone tabletop game.

Kult

Kult was released in 1991 and is known to have caused some controversy in Sweden on multiple occasions.[5][6][7] This resulted in Swedish toy stores refusing to sell the game.[8]

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