Hexagames
| Industry | Board games |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Defunct | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Dreieich, Germany |
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Hexagames was a German game publisher in Dreieich, which existed from 1982 to 1992.[1] It was one of the most famous German game publishers of the 1980s, notable for publishing games such as Lines of Action (1988) and Cosmic Encounter (1992).
History[edit]
Hexagames was created by Langden Hensley, with the trademark being registered by the German Patent and Trademark Office in late 1982.[1] In 1982, he and Jürgen Hagedorn released the game Long Short, developed by Hensley.[2]
After the game publisher Bütehorn went bankrupt around 1982, Hexagames included several of their games in its program.[3][4] Hagedorn retired from Hexagames in 1988. Joe Nikisch, the founder of the board game company Abacusspiele, was responsible for the product range of Hexagames as product manager beginning in 1986.[5][6][7] After the dissolution of Hexagames in 1992, the Berlin games manufacturer Sala took over some of the games under the Salagames label.[8] Salagames also disappeared from the market after about two years and in 1994 some Hexagames games were republished by Abacusspiele.[5]
In 1994, Hensley lost the "Hexagames" trademark, which was re-registered by the publishers "BOB Marketing & Sales GmbH" in Langen.[9] Some Hexagames games were later published by other publishers: Osiris (1995),[10] and Karriere Poker (1996).[11]
Awards[edit]
Several Hexagames games received various awards or been nominated for Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year):
- Spiel des Jahres
- 1987: The 1st Million by Sid Sackson (nominated)
- 1988: Lines of Action by Claude Soucie (nominated)
- 1989: Uisge (1984) by Roland Siegers (special award for "Most Beautiful Game")[7][12][13]
- 1989: Abilene (1985) by Roland Siegers (nominated)[7][12]
- 1990: Dino by Reinhold Wittig (nominated)[14]
- Deutscher Spiele Preis
- 1990: Römer by Rudolf Ross (7th place)
- 1992: Cosmic Encounter by Bill Eberle, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, and Bill Norton (6th place)
- Á la Carte Card Game Prize
- 1992: Res Publica by Reiner Knizia (1st place)
- 1992: Musketeers by Franz Josef Lamminger (4th place)
Other notable games[edit]
- Conquest by Donald Benge (1984)
- Black Monday (1988)
- Karrierepoker by Klaus Grähnke and Brian Walker (1988)[15]
- McMulti by James J St Laurent (1988)[6]
- Can't Stop Express by Sid Sackson (1989)
- Digging by Reiner Knizia (1990)
- Manager by Peter Pfeifer and Waltraud Pfeif (1991)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "DPMAregister | Marken - Registerauskunft". register.dpma.de. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Die Hexagames-Story". www.fairplay-online.de. 2007-05-17. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Infos zu 'Hexagames / TST-Enterprises'". luding.org. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Le Retoir de Seti". Jeux & Strategie (31): 13. February 1985 – via archive.org.
- ^ a b "Abacus Spiele". 2010-10-23. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ a b Walker, Brian (October 1988). "McMulti". Games International (1): 13 – via archive.org.
- ^ a b c Wittig, Reinhold (1988). Spielecollection No. 1 Spiele zur Schatzinsel. München Hugendubel. pp. 142–144. ISBN 9783880343559.
- ^ Rühle, Rudolf (2003). "Vom Luxus zum Dumping". Spielbox. 5: 40–41.
- ^ "DPMAregister | Marken - Registerauskunft". register.dpma.de. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Infos zu Osiris". luding.org. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Infos zu Karrierepoker". luding.org. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ a b Gros, Pascal (April 1989). "L'originalité comme leimotiv". Jeux & Stratégie (57): 11 – via archive.org.
- ^ Depaulis, Thierry (December 1986). "Uisge". Jeux & Stratégie (42): 17 – via archive.org.
- ^ "Dino". Spiel des Jahres. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- ^ Moon, Alan (December 1989). "Christmas Games". Games International (11): 12.