Allen D. Eldridge is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games.

Career

Allen Eldridge met Stephen Cole at a local game club in Amarillo, Texas, and joined Cole at his company JP Productions a few years after he founded it in 1973. Cole and Eldridge decided to close down JP in November 1976, and the company shut down in spring of 1977. In the fall of 1978, Cole and Eldridge co-founded

Task Force Games Task Force Games was a game company started in 1979 by Allen Eldridge and Stephen V. Cole. TFG published many games, most notably including both ''Star Fleet Battles'' (currently published by the original designers, Amarillo Design Bureau) and ...

which they used to sell only to wholesalers and retailers and not to individuals. After Eldridge got a line on inexpensive boxes, Task Force was able to release ''

Star Fleet Battles ''Star Fleet Battles'' (SFB) is a Military tactics, tactical board wargame set in an offshoot of the ''Star Trek'' setting called the Star Fleet Universe. Originally created in 1979 by Stephen V. Cole, it has had four major editions. The current ...

'' in a regular-sized and boxed second edition. After Cole left Task Force in 1983 to form his new company, the

Amarillo Design Bureau Amarillo Design Bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board Wargaming, wargames. The company is a successor to Task Force Games, and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based i ...

, Eldridge stayed with Task Force. In April 1988, Eldridge sold Task Force Games to New World Computing.

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