Pulsar Games was a game company that produced
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out ...
s and game supplements.
History
Pulsar Games was a new game company that licensed the rights to the game mechanics of ''
DC Heroes
''DC Heroes'' is an out-of-print superhero role-playing game set in the DC Universe and published by Mayfair Games. Other than sharing the same licensed setting, ''DC Heroes'' is unrelated to the West End Games ''DC Universe'' or the more recen ...
'' after
Mayfair Games
Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board game, board, card game, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed German-style board game, Euro-style board games to publish them in English. The company licensed worldwide English-language pub ...
stopped publishing the game, and had been trying to secure the rights since before the original Mayfair went defunct.
Pulsar published the super-hero game ''
Blood of Heroes'' (1998) using these rights to the game mechanics.
Pulsar Games closed operations in 2003.
Pulsar Games was later resurrected by another group of people that did not publish any new products, and their website was eventually taken down.
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Role-playing game publishing companies