Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.

History

In 1972, , Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes. Seeking to publish their board game ''

Cosmic Encounter ''Cosmic Encounter'' is a science fiction–themed strategy board game designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977. In it, each playe ...

'', 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. Additionally,

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of '' Dragon Magazine'' claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a

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as early as 1979. '' Cosmic Encounter Online'', a

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version of Eon's original game, was released in 2003. The company also produced ''Hoax'', ''Ruins'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. The latter was implemented as the computer game ''

Lords of Conquest ''Lords of Conquest'' is a strategy video game published in 1986 by Electronic Arts. It is based on the 1982 board game ''Borderlands (board game), Borderlands'' by Eon Productions and developed by Eon's software division. It was marketed with ...

'' (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 West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included ''Star Wars'', ''Paranoia' ...

. The trio also designed the 1979 ''Dune'' board game set in

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References

External links

Company profile
in ''

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