Merle Martin Rasmussen is an American game designer and writer best known for creating which espionage-themed role-playing game, first published in 1980?
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Merle M. Rasmussen Merle Martin Rasmussen is an American game designer and writer best known for creating the espionage role-playing game "Top Secret".
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Top Secret (role-playing game) Top Secret is an espionage-themed role-playing game written by Merle M. Rasmussen and first published in 1980 by TSR, Inc.
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Attack of the Humans Attack of the Humans is a role-playing game published by Rapport Games in 1990.
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Maelstrom (role playing game) Maelstrom is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book (ISBN  ; ISBN  ). The game is set in a 16th to 17th century British setting - the Tudor Period and the Elizabethan era - although the rules can be adapted to other locations or time periods. Firearms (readily available in Europe at this time) are conspicuously absent from the setting, mentioned only in passing in the initial rulebook.
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Lords of Waterdeep Lords of Waterdeep is a German-style board game designed by Peter Lee and Rodney Thompson and published by Wizards of the Coast in 2012. The game is set in Waterdeep, a fictional city in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game. Players take the role of masked rulers of Waterdeep, deploying agents and hiring adventurers to complete quests and increase their influence over the city.
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The Game (dice game) The Game is a dice game designed by Reinhold Wittig. It was first published in Germany in 1979, without rules and under the German name "Das Spiel".
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Thieves' Guild (role-playing game) Thieves' Guild is a role-playing game published by Gamelords in 1980.
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B-1 Nuclear Bomber B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a flight simulator game based on piloting a B-1 Lancer to its target and dropping a nuclear bomb. The USSR is one of the target countries. The game was developed by Avalon Hill and Microcomputer Games, Inc, and released in 1980 for the Apple II and other computers.
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Wizard and the Princess Wizard and the Princess (1980), also known as Adventure in Serenia (1982), is an adventure game by On-Line Systems for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64. It was the second title released in On-Line Systems' Hi-Res Adventures series after "Mystery House".
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Campaign setting A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A "campaign" is a series of individual adventures, and a "campaign setting" is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place. Usually a campaign setting is designed for a specific game (such as the "Forgotten Realms" setting for "Dungeons & Dragons") or a specific genre of game (such as Medieval fantasy, or outer space/science fiction adventure). There are numerous campaign settings available both in print and online. In addition to published campaign settings available for purchase, many game masters create their own settings, often referred to as "homebrew" settings or worlds.
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Escape from Astigar's Lair Escape from Astigar's Lair is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1980.
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Trek-80 Trek-80 is a computer game developed by Judges Guild in 1979 for the TRS-80.
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Role Aids Role Aids is a line of role-playing game supplements published by Mayfair Games starting in 1982 .
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Gangster! Gangster! is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1979.
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Heroes of Olympus (role-playing game) Heroes of Olympus is a role-playing game first published by Task Force Games in 1981.
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Odysseus (role-playing game) Odysseus is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1980.
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Nick Pelling Nick Pelling is a British-born computer programmer and investigative writer best known as the creator of the 1984 game "Frak!".
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Rogue (video game) Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold. "Rogue" was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based mainframe systems as a freely-distributed executable (Public domain software). It was later included in the official Berkeley Software Distribution 4.2 operating system (4.2BSD). Commercial ports of the game for a range of personal computers were made by Toy, Wichman, and Jon Lane under the company A.I. Design and financially supported by the Epyx software publishers. Additional ports to modern systems have been made since by other parties using the game's now-open source code.
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Crafty Games Crafty Games is an American publisher of role-playing games based on espionage and fantasy themes, particularly Spycraft. The company was founded by the creative team behind the Classic Spycraft and Spycraft 2.0 RPGs, shortly after both lines were shut down by then-publisher Alderac Entertainment Group. Since its inception, Crafty Games has published over 50 products in print and PDF format, both through Mongoose Publishing's Flaming Cobra imprint and e-book vendor OneBookShelf. Crafty Games' work on Spycraft 2.0 has won nominations for the Diana Jones Award and 4 ENnie Awards in 2006.
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Redmond A. Simonsen Redmond Aksel Simonsen (June 18, 1942 – March 9, 2005) was an American graphic artist and game designer best known for his work at the board wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Simonsen was considered an innovator in game information graphics, and is credited with creating the term "game designer".
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Steve Miller (game designer) Steve Miller is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast, and other role-playing games.
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1980 in games This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1980. For video games, see 1980 in video gaming.