FASA Corporation
| FASA Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1980 |
| Seat | Chicago , Illinois , United States |
| Branch | Publishing |
The FASA Corporation , named "FASA" ( acronym for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration"), a US company for roller and board games . The publisher developed the game worlds Shadowrun , BattleTech , Earthdawn and Crimson Skies . FASA was the original parent company of the computer game developer FASA Studio , which was sold to Microsoft in 1999.
history
FASA-Verlag was founded in 1980 by Jordan Weisman and L. Ross Babcock .
FASA began as a company that was solely focused on producing additions and extensions for the then very popular science fiction role-playing game " Traveler " from "Game Designers Workshop" (GDW). “Freedonia” - as part of the acronym “Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration” - in turn refers to the fictional country Freedonia from the Marx Brothers film The Marx Brothers at War . Freedonia was a world from the original Traveler campaign by Ross Babcock and Jordan Weisman.
FASA became known through the license for the Star Trek role-playing game and brought out a number of successful games, above all BattleTech and Shadowrun .
In 1995 a computer game division was founded, FASA Interactive Technologies. The studio developed the computer game MechWarrior . In 1999, FASA Interactive was bought by the software manufacturer Microsoft , renamed FASA Studio and moved from Chicago to Redmond. Jordan Weisman took on the role of Creative Director of the Microsoft Games division for two years. Eight years later, in 2007, the department renamed “FASA Studio” was closed.
The FASA Corporation remained independent of this, but stopped all publishing activities in 2001. Since then, the company has managed the FASA brands. Jordan Weisman's company WizKids is the unofficial successor and holder of most of the licenses .
Game series and single games
- Star Trek The Roleplaying Game, 1982 (German Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game , FanPro 1987)
- Battletech, 1985 (German FanPro 1988)
- Doctor Who Role Playing Game, 1985
- Mechwarrior - the Battletech Role Playing Game, 1986 (German Mech Warriors , FanPro 1995)
- Renegade Legion (board game), 1987 - Implemented as a role-playing game Legionnaire 1990
- Shadowrun , 1989 (German FanPro 1990)
- Earthdawn , 1993 (German FranPro / Games-In 1994)
- Crimson Skies (board game), 1998 (German FanPro 1999)
- BEFORE the Maelsrom (board game), 1999
- Crucible: Conquest of the Final Realm (board game), 2000
Web links
- FASA Corporation in the Luding games database
Individual evidence
- ^ John Keefer: GameSpy Retro: Developer Origins . GameSpy . March 31, 2006. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ↑ https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/06/11/e3-2018-heres-what-happened-to-every-studio-microsoft-has-bought
- ↑ Microsoft's FASA Studio closed - Article at Golem.de , from September 13, 2007
- ↑ Trey Walker: FASA shuts down . CBS Interactive . January 26, 2001. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved on November 23, 2016.