Mayfair Games
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Mayfair Games is a publisher of board and roleplaying games in the United States and United Kingdom. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English, most notably the Settlers of Catan series licensed from Kosmos.
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[edit] History
Mayfair games was founded in the early 1980s by Darwin Bromley in Chicago.
In 1982, Mayfair released its War in the Falklands game just as the war ended, leading the English press to accuse Mayfair of "ghoulish" exploitation.[1]
In 1993, Mayfair was sued by TSR, Inc., who argued that Mayfair's "Role Aids" line of game supplements, advertised as compatible with AD&D, violated their 1984 trademark agreement. While the court found that some of the line violated their trademark, the line as a whole did not violate the agreement[2], and Mayfair continued publishing the line until the rights were bought by TSR.
In 1997, Mayfair was bought by Iron Crown Enterprises.
In 2003, Mayfair started publishing games by daVinci Games, beginning with the popular card game Bang!. In 2005 Mayfair also began distributing all of the games published by Phalanx Games.
[edit] Games
This list includes both games originally published by Mayfair and games licensed by Mayfair from other publishers.
[edit] Board games
- 18XX games: 1856 and 1870
- Amazonas
- Anno 1503
- The Company War (1983), based on the C. J. Cherryh novel Downbelow Station
- Cosmic Encounter
- Crayon rails games: Empire Builder, Australian Rails, British Rails, Eurorails, India Rails, Iron Dragon, Lunar Rails, Nippon Rails, North American Rails, Russian Rails; Agent of Change; Uncle Happy's Train Game
- Dragonriders of Pern
- Entdecker
- The Forever War, based on the Joe Haldeman book of the same name
- Hammer's Slammers
- Hue
- Jerusalem
- The Keep (1983)
- Morgan's Rifles
- Quo Vadis?
- Red Star Falling
- Road to the White House
- The Settlers of Catan games
- Tigris & Euphrates
- Wake Island
- War in the Falklands
- Xanth
[edit] Card games
- Abracadabra (2004)[3]
- Alibi
- Bang!
- Elixir
- Family Business
- Modern Art
- SimCity Card Game
- Theophrastus
[edit] Roleplaying games
[edit] External link
- Mayfair Games. Retrieved on February 20, 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ Jim Hind, "War in the Falklands." The Wargamer, Vol. 1, #22, November/December 1982
- ^ TSR, Inc. v. Mayfair Games, Inc., 1993 WL 79272 (N.D. Ill.)
- ^ Tom Vasel (2005). Abracadabra. The Dice Tower. Retrieved on February 20, 2006.
