Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.

History

In 1972,

Peter Olotka Peter Olotka is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games, most notably Cosmic Encounter. Career In 1972, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes. S ...

, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future Pastimes. Seeking to publish their board game ''

Cosmic Encounter ''Cosmic Encounter'' is a science fiction–themed strategy board game designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977. In it, each playe ...

'', they met Ned Horn, who offered to invest in the game; several weeks later, Olotka, Kittredge, Eberle, and Horn created a new company, Eon Products, and ''Cosmic Encounter'' went to press in 1977. The company also produced ''Hoax'', ''Ruins'', '' Quirks'' and ''

Borderlands A borderland or borderlands are the geographical space or zone around a territorial border. Borderland or borderlands may refer to: Places * Borderland, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia * Borderland (ele ...

''. The latter was implemented as the computer game ''

Lords of Conquest ''Lords of Conquest'' is a strategy video game published in 1986 by Electronic Arts. It is based on the 1982 board game ''Borderlands'' by Eon Productions and developed by Eon's software division. It was marketed with the slogan "Better than '' ...

'' (1986) published by Eon Software, Inc, and was re-released by Fantasy Flight games as ''Gearworld: The Borderlands''. The Eon design team also designed the Dune boardgame for the Avalon Hill Game Company.

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