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Christian T. Petersen was born in the United States, but spent his childhood in Denmark; while he was still only just in high school there he founded the company Pegasus Spil Import which imported games from Avalon Hill into Scandinavia, and he also founded Games Weekend, the second games convention in Denmark.
Since role-playing games originally developed from wargames, there are many historical and alternate-history RPGs based on Earth. The settings for such games are excluded from this list, unless they include significant fictional elements. Many RPG campaign settings are based on fictional universes from books, comics, video games, or films.
Koei Co., Ltd. was a Japanese video game publisher, developer, and distributor founded in 1978.The company is known for its historical simulation games based on the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as well as simulation games based on pseudo-historical events.
The company still exists, but 20th Century Fox's video game business was rearranged to FoxNext. FoxNext: Los Angeles: California: United States 2017 Marvel Strike Force: Division of 20th Century Studios. The company still exists but their game development studios were acquired by Scopely in 2020. [20] Frictional Games: Helsingborg: Sweden 2001 ...
FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and board games between 1980 and 2001, after which they closed publishing operations for several years, becoming an IP holding company under the name FASA Inc. In 2012, a wholly owned subsidiary called FASA Games Inc. went into operation, using the name and logo under ...
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. [a] is a Japanese video game development and localization company specializing in role-playing video games, visual novels and adventure games.The company was founded in 1984 as Chunsoft Co., Ltd. and merged with Spike in 2012.
Traditional and live-action role-playing games in the historical genre. Most of these are actually alternate history games, adding science fiction (such as steampunk) or fantasy elements to a historical setting.
This is a list of companies that have produced tabletop role-playing games in English, listed in order of the year that the company published its first role-playing game-related product (game, supplement, or magazine). Also listed is the years the company was active, and a list of notable role-playing games the company has produced.