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'''Adventure Games''' was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.
==History== 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).<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}</ref>{{rp|39}}<ref name="Dragon #249">{{cite journal| last = Varney| first = Allen| authorlink = Allen Varney| title = Profiles: Dave Arneson| journal = Dragon| issue = #249| page = 120| publisher = Wizards of the Coast| location = Renton, Washington|date=July 1998}}</ref> The company also put out about a half-dozen Tékumel related books, due to Arneson's friendship with M. A. R. Barker.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|39}} Adventure Games was profitable, but Arneson found the workload to be excessive and finally sold the company to Flying Buffalo.<ref name="sacco">{{cite web |author=Sacco, Ciro Allessandro |title=An Interview with Dave Arneson |url=http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=47&page=1 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040707092754/http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=47&page=1 |archivedate=July 7, 2004 |accessdate=June 3, 2009}} (Alternative URL: [http://www.thekyngdoms.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=35].)</ref> 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.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|39}}
== Games ==
* ''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)
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Category:Role-playing game publishing companies