''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy
board games and
tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''.
History
''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a
digest
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Literature and publications
*''The Digest'', formerly the English and Empire Digest
*Digest size magazine format
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quarterly publication of the brand new
Metagaming Concepts company in March 1975.
Howard M. Thompson
Howard M. Thompson is an American wargame designer and founder of Metagaming Concepts. His first game was ''Stellar Conquest'', a popular and well-designed simulation of interstellar warfare.
Thompson is most famous for his idea to publish small ...
, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand we do it now" (after their first game, ''
Stellar Conquest''). Initial issues were in a plain-paper digest format. By issue 17, it had grown to a
full size