About Fantasy Games Unlimited

Fantasy Games Unlimited was founded in the summer of 1975 by Scott Bizar. Fantasy Games Unlimited's first two products were Gladiators and Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age. These games were released simultaneously in 1975.
 
Fantasy Games Unlimited went on to release many high quality miniatures combat systems, war games and role playing games including Aftermath!, Bushido, Chivalry and Sorcery, Flashing Blades, Privateers and Gentlemen, PSI World, Space Opera and Villains and Vigilantes. FGU also acted as the American distributor for Philmar/Arial Games (one of the largest war game companies based in the United Kingdom at the time). Finally, for a brief period of time, FGU published a Wargaming magazine which was appropriately entitled Wargaming Magazine.
 
Fantasy Games Unlimited is different from many of the other gaming companies in that it is not a game design house. Rather, it is a publishing house. Authors submit their ideas from all over the United States and even overseas. FGU contracts the most promising projects and the author designs the game.
 
Fantasy Games Unlimited stopped releasing new titles in the mid-1980's but has continued to reprint old materials. Plans are currently being made to release some new material in addition to reprinting some old favorites. New products may be published as early as late 2001.
 

Contact Fantasy Games Unlimited

Snail Mail: Fantasy Games Unlimited
P.O. Box 1082-D
Gilbert, AZ 85234
Email: fgu@fantasygamesunlimited.com
Fax: (208) 567-5152
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About Philmar/Ariel Games

Fantasy Games Unlimited was the United States distributor for Philmar/Ariel Games in the mid/late seventies and early eighties. In the early eighties, Philmar/Ariel Games was acquired by Gibson Games. Gibson Games kept the Philmar/Arial line in print for a couple of years. However, by the mid eighties all of the old Philmar/Arial games were out of print. Gibson Games is still around but no longer holds the rights to any of the old Philmar/Ariel games. The rights to these games have reverted back to their authors. However, Gibsons Games does still carry some board games targeted at an adult audience such as Civilization, Diplomacy and 221B Baker Street.
 
Fantasy Games Unlimited still has some left-over copies of The Mystic Wood, Seastrike, Sorcerer's Cave, and Sorcerer's Cave Extension. Terence Donnelly has created a computerized version of Sorcerer's Cave. To go to Terance's page where you can download a shareware version of the Sorcerer's Cave computer game, click here.

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