Allen Eldridge
{{Short description|American game designer}}
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Allen D. Eldridge is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games.
Career
Allen Eldridge first met Stephen Cole through a game club in Amarillo, Texas, and Cole brought Eldridge into his company JP Productions a few years after he founded it in 1973.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|114}} Cole and Eldridge made the decision to close JP in November 1976, and the company was shut down in spring of 1977.{{rp|114}} Cole and Eldridge co-founded Task Force Games in the fall of 1978 and chose to sell products directly to wholesalers and retailers rather than to individuals.{{rp|114}} Eldridge was able to make an arrangement for inexpensive boxes, so Task Force was able to release Star Fleet Battles in a regular-sized second edition box.{{rp|114}} Eldridge stayed with Task Force Games when Cole left in 1983 to form the new Amarillo Design Bureau company.{{rp|116}} Eldridge sold Task Force Games to the computer game company New World Computing in April 1988.{{rp|117}}
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