Target Games

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Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games. They used to publish much of their material in the form of stapled books in G5 (169 by 239 mm) format in a box together with dice.

They released the role playing games Drakar och Demoner (1982), Mutant (1984) (with the later versions Mutant (1989) Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles), Kult (1991), Chock (1985, a translation of Chill), Sagan om Ringen (1986, a translation of Middle-earth Role Playing) and Stjärnornas Krig (1988, a translation of the WEG Star Wars RPG).

They also released three generic sourcebooks, Grymkäfts fällor (1987), Stadsintermezzon (1988) and Skattkammaren (1988) as well as many adventures and sourcebooks for their games. Until the mid 1990s Target Games published their Swedish roleplaying games the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games"). Target Games was reconstructed in 1999 and ceased publication of all of its inventory and the intellectual property rights were transeferd to the daughter company Paradox Entertainment, which later became an independent company.[1] Some of the titles have since been licensed to new game companies.

Beside role playing games, the company had its own magazine named Sinkadus, published translated gamebooks (the Lone Wolf series among others) as well as translated fantasy novels (beginning with a Conan the Barbarian book). Target Games also published a Drakar och Demoner computer game in 1999.