In 1989, tabletop gaming was both at a high point and on the precipice. While TSR, the company founded by Dungeons & Dragons co-creator, Gary Gygax, was in the midst of financial woes that would ultimately lead to its doom, it was also producing a lot of comparably weird stuff, at least when compared side-by-side with the relatively sedate and stable High Fantasy and historical material it had produced for a decade. Likewise, mid-‘80s media from both the West and Japan had cemented the concept of ‘cyberpunk’ into the nerdist sphere of awareness.
It is within this environment that a number of non-TSR gaming startups popped into existence. Once of these, FASA, was started by Jordan Weisman and Ross Babcock, who, together with Weisman’s father’s expertise in the publishing indus... |
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