Pegasus games

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Pegasus games
legal form GmbH
founding April 4, 1993
Seat Friedberg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Karsten Esser, Andreas Finkernagel
Number of employees 30th
Branch Games publisher, game distribution
Website www.pegasus.de

Pegasus Spiele is a German game publisher founded in 1993 by Karsten Esser and Andreas Finkernagel with headquarters in Friedberg , Hesse , which primarily produces and sells board games , card and role-playing games . Pegasus started as a fantasy shop and began publishing with role-playing systems and trading card games , with the distribution of Magic: The Gathering in German-speaking countries playing a major role.

In recent years in particular, numerous games by the publisher have been awarded national game prizes, such as the German game of the year and the Austrian game of games . So were Camel Up and King Domino the award for Game of the Year and Mombasa was awarded the German game prize.

history

Started out as a fantasy store

Pegasus Spiele Verlags- und Medienvertriebsgesellschaft mbH was founded on April 4, 1993 by its two managing directors and owners Karsten Esser and Andreas Finkernagel as a shop for fantasy games in Friedberg in a former craft business for window technology that Finkernagel's father ran. Esser and Finkernagel also founded the fantasy club "The Community of the Ring" with the magazine "Ringbote" as the club magazine.

In 1994, she expanded the store to a publisher and published the first German translation of the RPG system GURPS under license from Steve Jackson Games by Steve Jackson . With the success of trading card games to Magic: The Gathering Pegasus also released the also developed by Steve Jackson Illuminati. New World Order , which became the third German-speaking trading card game after Magic: The Gathering and Dark Force . In the same year Pegasus had its first trade fair appearance at the international game days SPIEL in Essen. In 1995 the 1st German "Magic: The Gathering" championship took place in Friedberg with 512 participants. and from 1996 through Steve Jackson and Wizards of the Coast, the publisher became one of five German wholesalers for Magic: The Gathering . Pegasus also added the game systems Midgard , the oldest German role-playing game , and Call of Cthulhu , a role-playing game in the worlds of HP Lovecraft , to its program. In the card game area, Pegasus initially published mainly games from the fantasy sector as well as many German translations from well-known English-language publishers. Since 2003, Pegasus has also been selling the satirical card game series Munchkin, also developed by Steve Jackson, with numerous offshoots.

Expansion of the publishing business

At the same time as the role and trading card games, Pegasus developed its board game business and, in 1997, was the first board game to launch a German-language version of the game Kings and Things by Tom Wham , which was produced on the machines of the Kosmos-Verlag . In 1998, after a reorganization at Wizards of the Coast, Pegasus lost the license for Magic: The Gathering . Instead of downsizing, the publishing house expanded and expanded the range from a few hundred to over 10,000 items. He built up his own game team, which, with Mondo and Pictomania, also deliberately expanded to include family games. In 2012, Pegasus was again licensed to distribute Magic: The Gathering and continues to distribute it to this day. According to the company itself, more than 5,000 games and toys have already been sold at Pegasus. A network of 300 voluntary game explainers supports the publisher in making its products known in German-speaking Europe at trade fairs and events. 30 employees, including numerous freelancers, work for the publisher.

In 2009, Matt Leacock's cooperative board game Pandemie (2009) was nominated for Game of the Year , followed by further nominations for Im Wandel der Zeiten - Das Würfelspiel: Bronzezeit (2010) and Strasbourg for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2011, which makes the company stand out not only as a distributor, but also as a publisher of board games. Further nominations followed, and in 2014 Camel Up was simultaneously named Game of the Year and Istanbul as Kennerspiel des Jahres 2014. The publisher has also been represented in the children's games segment since 2015 and the children's game Mmm! Nominated as children's game of the year . In 2016 Mombasa was awarded the German Games Prize as well as other prizes and in 2017, Kingdomino , another game from Pegasus Verlag, won the game of the year, while another game was nominated with Magic Maze .

Pegasus Spiele is responsible for the official distribution of some Wizards-of-the-Coast brands such as Avalon Hill and Dungeons & Dragons . The board games from the Dutch publisher White Goblin Games are also exclusive to the portfolio . In addition, the distribution is also for many board game publishers such as MeterMorphosen ( mixed doubles ), Kylskapspoesi ( conversation piece ), Moses Verlag ( Black Stories ), Blaubart Verlag ( Murderous Dinner Party ), Abacus Spiele ( Zooloretto ), Adlung Spiele ( Teamwork ), Pixelproducts ( MemoCards ) , Wizkids ( StarTrek , Lord of the Rings ), eggertspiele , the Edition Spielwiese ( Cottage Garden , Indian Summer ), sit down! ( Magic Maze ) and Plan B Games ( Azul ).

Publications (selection)

Board games

Fantastic adventures

Card games

Role play

Magazines

Awards

In the last few years in particular, games by Pegasus Spiele and cooperation partners have been nominated and awarded at various national and international game awards. a. in German-speaking countries:

  • Pandemic : Nominated for Game of the Year 2009, Game of Games: Games Hit for Experts 2009
  • Through the Ages - The Dice Game : Bronze Age : Nomination for Game of the Year 2010
  • Don Quixote : Game of Games: Games Hit For Experts 2010
  • Strasbourg : nomination for game of the year 2011
  • Village : Award for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2012
  • Mage Knight the Board Game: Game of Games: Games Hit For Experts 2012
  • Pictomania : Game of Games: Games Hit Among Friends 2012
  • The Dwarves : RPC Fantasy Award 2013
  • Camel Up : Game of the Year Award 2014, Game of Games: Games Hit for Experts 2014
  • Love Letter : Recommended list for the game of the year 2014
  • Istanbul : Award for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2014
  • Rococo : nomination for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2014
  • Krosmaster Arena : Game of Games: Griffin Scroll 2014
  • Mmm! : Game of Games 2015, also nomination for Children's Game of the Year 2016
  • Crazy Coconuts : Game of Games: Hit Games For Kids 2015
  • Mombasa : Recommendation list for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2016, German Games Award 2016, Game of Games: Games Hit simply the best for experts 2016
  • Epic PvP : Game of Games: Griffin Scroll 2016
  • My dream house : Family game: Games hit for experts 2017
  • Great Western Trail : Recommended list for the 2017 Connoisseur Game of the Year
  • Captain Sonar : Recommended list for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2017
  • Kingdomino : Game of the Year Award 2017
  • Magic Maze : 2017 Game of the Year nomination
  • Magic to the power of three : Recommendation list for 2017's children's game of the year
  • Memoarrr! : Recommended list for the game of the year 2018
  • Krasse Kacke : Recommended list for the game of the year 2019
  • Fabulantica : nomination for children's game of the year 2019
  • Magic Maze kids : Recommended list for children's game of the year 2019
  • Detective (board game) : Recommended list for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019
  • Paper Tales : Recommended list for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2019

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Michel Kaufmann: The Friedberger Verlag Pegasus Spiele has once again won the "Game of the Year" critics' award with Kingdomino. Kreis-Anzeiger, August 26, 2017; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Udo Bartsch: Portrait: 20 Years of Pegasus - From Fantasy Store to Premium Brand. spielbox 5/2013, pp. 30–33. ( Full text )
  3. ↑ a b c d e history of the publishing house Pegasus Spiele ; accessed on August 23, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Pandemic on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b In the Changing Times - The Dice Game : Bronze Age on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Strasbourg on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Camel Up on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b Istanbul on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Kingdomino on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ a b Magic Maze on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  11. ^ Village on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  12. ↑ Love Letter on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ Rococo on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ Mmm! on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  15. ↑ Mombasa on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  16. ^ Great Western Trail on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  17. ↑ Captain Sonar on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.
  18. ↑ Zauberei Hoch Drei on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on November 7, 2017.

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