Eon Products
{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game publisher}}
Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.
History
In 1972, {{vanchor|Peter Olotka}}, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|188}} Seeking to publish their board game Cosmic Encounter, they met Ned Horn, who offered to invest in the game; several weeks later, Olotka, Kittredge, Eberle, and Horn created a new company, Eon Products, and Cosmic Encounter went to press in 1977.{{rp|188}} Additionally, Allen Varney of Dragon Magazine claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a collectible card game as early as 1979.{{cite magazine |last=Varney |first=Allen |date=January 1994 |title=Role-playing Reviews |url=https://annarchive.com/files/Drmg201.pdf |magazine=Dragon Magazine |pages =66–67 |publisher=TSR, Inc. |access-date=2017-12-19 }} Cosmic Encounter Online, a Flash version of Eon's original game, was released in 2003.{{rp|188}}
The company also produced Hoax, Ruins, Quirks and Borderlands. The latter was implemented as the computer game Lords of Conquest (1986) published by Eon Software, Inc, and was re-released by Fantasy Flight games as Gearworld: The Borderlands. The year before, Eberle, Kittredge, and Olotka had designed Star Trek: The Enterprise 4 Encounter (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End Games.{{rp|189}} The trio also designed the 1979 Dune board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/35-years-later-the-extremely-rare-extremely-good-dune-board-game-is |title=35 years later, the extremely rare, extremely good Dune board game is finally getting a reprint |author= |date=15 March 2019 |publisher= |website=TabletopGaming.co.uk |accessdate=16 March 2019 |archiveurl= |archivedate= }}
References
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External links
[https://archive.org/details/games-39-1983-may/page/16/mode/2up Company profile] in Games #39
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