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West End Games
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its current and past product lines include ''Paranoia'', ''Torg'', ''Shatterzone'', ''Men In Black'', ''DC Universe'', ''Star Wars'', ''The World of Indiana Jones'', ''Junta'', ''Necroscope'', ''Tales from the Crypt'', ''Bloodshadows'', and ''Metabarons''.
== Development ==
Previously a producer of board wargames, the company began producing roleplaying games in 1984 with ''Paranoia''. The high production values demanded by the wargames industry made them one of the few companies who could compete with TSR, and they were able to acquire the license from Columbia Pictures to produce an RPG based on the film ''Ghostbusters''. This game, ''Ghostbusters: A Frightfully Cheerful Roleplaying Game'', formed the basis of the D6 System which was to be heavily used in many of their licensed products.
Around 1987, the company acquired the license to produce a ''Star Wars'' role-playing game. Since the films had been released some years previously, and there was (at the time) no new media forthcoming, the success of these books came as a surprise. Their early work on the Star Wars Roleplaying Game established much of the groundwork of what later became the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe, and their sourcebooks are still frequently cited by Star Wars fans as reference material. Lucasfilm considered their sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the Thrawn trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games Star Wars books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within. Zahn's trilogy, in turn, renewed interest in the franchise and provided many sales for West End Games. In the early 1990s, the FidoNet Star Wars Echo hosted a message forum for playing the ''Star Wars'' RPG on computer bulletin board systems, and some current and future West End Games freelancers took part.
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