Adventure Games

American game company

This article is about the company. For the genre of video game, see Adventure game.

Adventure Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.

## History

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In the early 1980s Dave Arneson established his own game company, Adventure Games – staffed largely by Arneson's friends, most of whom were also members of a Civil War reenactment group – that produced miniatures games, as well as a new edition of his own Adventures in Fantasy role-playing game (1981).[1]: 39 [2] The company also put out about a half-dozen Tékumel related books, due to Arneson's friendship with M. A. R. Barker.[1]: 39  Adventure Games was profitable, but Arneson found the workload to be excessive and finally sold the company to Flying Buffalo.[3] Flying Buffalo picked up the rights to Adventure Games in 1985; because Arneson owned a portion of Flying Buffalo, he let them take care of the rest of the company's stock and IP when he shut the company down.[1]: 39

## Games

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* The Armies of Tékumel Volumes I-II (1978-1981)
* Harpoon (1981)
* Rails Through the Rockies (1981)
* The Complete Brigadier (1982)
* Harpoon II (1983)
* Johnny Reb (1983)
* Pentantastar (1983)

## References

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1. ^ a b c Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
2. ^ Varney, Allen (July 1998). "Profiles: Dave Arneson". Dragon (#249). Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast: 120.
3. ^ Sacco, Ciro Allessandro. "An Interview with Dave Arneson". Archived from the original on July 7, 2004. Retrieved June 3, 2009. (Alternative URL: [1].)