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Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games is a game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. It was founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson.

Their best-known games include:

• GURPS, the Generic Universal Role Playing System
• INWO, Illuminati New World Order, the trading card game of world domination
• 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
• Ogre, the classic simulation of future war
• G.E.V, a spin-off of Ogre highlighting the G.E.V. vehicle

On March 1, 1990, because of a misunderstanding about a game under development called GURPS Cyberpunk, SJG's offices in Austin, Texas were raided by the U.S. Secret Service. The raid was part of Operation Sundevil, a nationwide investigation of computer crime. More than three years later, a federal court awarded damages and attorneys' fees of US$51,040 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. See GURPS Cyberpunk for more information on the raid and the ensuing case.

External link

• Steve Jackson Games' official web site

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