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Founded during the hey-day of role-playing games and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons, SJG created several role-playing and strategy games with a sci-fi bent. SJG borrowed and expanded upon ideas pioneered by strategy game companies such as Avalon Hill and TSR. Despite these similarities, SJG had a unique feel all their own and became popular with their releases. Games such as Ogre, Car Wars and G.E.V (an Ogre spin-off) were popular during SJG's early years.
Today SJG publishes games of various varieties ( card games, board games, strategy games) and genres ( fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror).
On March 1 1990Events January January 3 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 7 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello The man who led the coup aginst Dr Apo, because of a misunderstanding about a game under development called GURPS CyberpunkWritten by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games in 1995, GURPS Cyberpunk is a sourcebook for a cyberpunk-themed role-playing game based in a fictional, near-future dystopia such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential nove, SJG's offices in Austin, TexasAustin is the capital of the state of Texas, within the United States of America. As of Census 2000, the population of 656,562 people (metro area population of over 1 million people) made Austin the fourth-largest city in Texas (behind Houston, Dallas, an were raided by the U.S. Secret Service. The raid was part of Operation SundevilOperation Sundevil was a 1990 nation-wide Secret Service crackdown on "illegal computer hacking activities". Along with the Chicago Task Force and the Arizona Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau, they conducted raids in Austin, Cincinnati, Detroit, Lo, a nationwide investigation of computer crime. More than three years later, a federal court awarded damages and attorneys' fees of US$51,040 to SJ Games, ruling that the raid had been careless, illegal, and completely unjustified. CyberpunkCyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a sub- genre of science fiction which focuses on computers or information technology. The plot of cyberpunk literature often revolves around the conflict between hackers, artificial intelligences, and m popularizer Bruce Sterling discussed the affair in his book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. The case also motivated the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. See GURPS Cyberpunk for more information on the raid and the ensuing case.