10 Games You Didn t Know Steve Jackson Worked On
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10 Games You Didn t Know Steve Jackson Worked On
He may be famed for Munchkin, but Steve Jackson has created a plethora of other games. Steve Jackson is an American game maker who's been a part of many RPGs, , and card games. Steve Jackson is commonly confused for another Steve Jackson from Britain who is an author and video game designer. This had led to him being attributed as creator or designer for his British counterpart's works, leading to some confusion on what projects he's been a part of when his name appears. Steve Jackson, the American Game Producer, has seen a lot of success in his board games with series like Munchkin, but Steve Jackson has been a part of many other projects in his career as a designer. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY Zombie Dice
Zombie Dice is a recent that's based around dice, no role-playing elements. It's won an award as the best family game in the Origin Awards and has had two follow up games. It's a pretty simple dice game where you win if roll a specific number enough times, just this one comes with a zombie theme on the dice. Steve Jackson served as the publisher and creator of the game through his game company. Cthulu Dice
The game is pretty simple, everyone has marbles that represent their sanity, and you compete against other players where the loser loses a marble and the winner gains one depending on who wins the dice roll. Each die is H.P Lovecraft themed, with popular glyphs from his mythology. Steeve Jackson also worked on this dice board game as designer and creator through his self titled company Steve Jackson Games. Car Wars
The very popular board game Car Wars got its start through Steve Jackson games where it's gone through 5 editions throughout the years since its release in 1980. This RPG board game is based on a SCi-fi, Mad Max Scenario where cars face each other in battle while decked out in weaponry and armor in hopes of victory. It allowed players to make up their own scenario involving their gaming system where the player could try to get past arenas for upgrades to their cars for example. Steve Jackson served as the publisher of the game Undead
Undead is a board game take on the Dracula versus Van Helsing battle, where one controls Dracula and the rest become hunters for the vampiric master. This is a niche board game that was published by Steve Jackson Games back in 1981, who designed and published the adventure. The concept could have been more detailed to have the justification of being another adaption of the original novel. It is another Dracula adventure and perhaps not the best you'll find. Monsters Monsters
Monster! Monster! was designed by Steve Jackson and published around 1976. It's an RPG that was heavily compared to another game that put you in the feet of monsters called Tunnel and Trolls, and seen as the basic version of the game. This game, however, got a name as being a part of RPG history and sought after as a collectible. Its goal is to have your monsters prey on civilization. It was one of Steve Jackson's first projects with Metagaming Concepts. The Fantasy Trip
This was one of Steve Jackson's most controversial games as he meant for this to be his magnum opus against Dungeons and Dragons, but things went wrong with Metagaming Concepts. They reportedly changed the whole game on him while working above him so he didn't know, which led to him leaving the company. This eventually led to Steve Jackson to make GURPS, his most popular Role Playing Game. The Fantasy Trip did go on to big success until Metagaming Concepts' assets had to be sold out. Godsfire
Godsfire is a very detailed RPG board game that deals in futuristic political systems. This game can pack on a lot of information on its player as it was reviewed, which can be hard to handle even with limited players. Steve Jackson had designed and worked on this game through Metagaming Concepts where it was published in 1976. The goal of the game is galactic domination over your opponents. Much like most of his games during that period, many it felt it was highly complex. Ogre
Ogre was Metagaming Concepts' first microgame and it was designed by Steve Jackson, and published in 1977. The point of this game is to either destroy the giant military ultra tank called the "Ogre," or have your opponent's base destroyed. It was a two-player game with a lot less detail compared to other works from Steve Jackson. This was one of the games Steve Jackson retained the rights to so when he left Hetagamin Concepts, he had the ability to published under his company when he began his company. Wizard
Wizard is an RPG that was published through Metagaming Concepts and was created and designed through Steve Jackson. It was one of the titles where he had better control over the way the game was made and implemented. It was published in 1977 to compliments to its mesh-ability with Steve Jackson's other previous game Melee. It was another game he had held rights to for his Future company. The game upped Melee's system, allowing for a more comfortable stat determining system that interested players. Success in Wizard depends on Strength and Dexterity as those are the two most important stats in the game. Ninja Burger
From the back of internet culture resurfaces Ninja Burger. It was a parody website in 1999 involving the idea of sending out elite ninjas to deliver food and if they didn't make it to your place in 30 minutes no matter where you lived, they committed seppuku. Even Steve Jackson was involved in the series in creating a role-playing board game under his label Steve Jackson Games. Ninja Burger spawned into its own mini-franchise involving comic strips and mini-films as well as a card game. The board game originally came out in 2006 and eventually was released with two other versions, one revamped version, and another known as No Honor edition.