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- FASA abstract "FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and board games between 1980 and 2001, after which they closed publishing operations for several years, becoming an IP holding company under the name FASA Inc. In 2012, a wholly owned subsidiary called FASA Games Inc. went into operation, using the name and logo with permission of the parent company. FASA Games Inc. works alongside Ral Partha Europe, also a subsidiary of FASA Inc., to bring out new editions of existing properties such as Earthdawn and Demonworld, and to develop new properties within the FASA cosmology.FASA first appeared as a Traveller licensee, producing supplements for that Game Designers' Workshop role-playing game, especially the work of the Keith Brothers. The company went on to establish itself as a major gaming company with the publication of the first licensed Star Trek RPG, then several successful original games. Noteworthy lines included BattleTech and Shadowrun. Their Star Trek role-playing supplements and tactical ship game enjoyed popularity outside the wargaming community since, at the time, official descriptions of the Star Trek universe were not common, and the gaming supplements offered details fans craved.The highly successful BattleTech line led to a series of video games, some of the first virtual reality gaming suites, called Virtual World (created by a subdivision of the company known at the time of development as ESP, an acronym for \"Extremely Secret Project\") and a Saturday-morning animated TV series.Originally the name FASA was an acronym for \"Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration\", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup. This tongue-in-cheek attitude was carried over in humorous self-references in its games. For example, in Shadowrun, a tactical nuclear device was detonated near FASA's offices at 1026 W. Van Buren St in Chicago, Illinois.".
- FASA foundingYear "1980".
- FASA industry Role-playing_game.
- FASA industry Wargaming.
- FASA keyPerson Jordan_Weisman.
- FASA keyPerson L._Ross_Babcock_III.
- FASA location Chicago.
- FASA location Illinois.
- FASA location United_States.
- FASA product BattleTech.
- FASA product Crimson_Skies.
- FASA product Demonworld.
- FASA product Earthdawn.
- FASA product Renegade_Legion.
- FASA product Shadowrun.
- FASA product VOR:_The_Maelstrom.
- FASA wikiPageID "11758".
- FASA wikiPageLength "8250".
- FASA wikiPageOutDegree "83".
- FASA wikiPageRevisionID "685290454".
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink BattleTech.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink BattleTech:_The_Animated_Series.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink BattleTech_Centers.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Board_game.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Catalyst_Game_Labs.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_based_in_Chicago,_Illinois.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_disestablished_in_2001.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_established_in_1980.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Category:Role-playing_game_publishing_companies.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Crimson_Skies.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Demonworld.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Duck_Soup_(1933_film).
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Earthdawn.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink FASA_Studio.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Fantasy_Productions.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink File:FASA_Logo.png.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink File:Original_FASA_Logo.png.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Freedonia.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Game_Designers_Workshop.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Illinois.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Intellectual_property.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Jordan_Weisman.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink L._Ross_Babcock_III.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Legionnaire_(role-playing_game).
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Marx_Brothers.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink MechWarrior_(role-playing_game).
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Microsoft.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Miniature_figure_(gaming).
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Ohio_University_Press.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Ral_Partha_Enterprises.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink RedBrick_Limited.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Renegade_Legion.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Role-playing_game.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Shadowrun.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Smith_&_Tinker.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Star_Trek.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Star_Trek:_The_Role_Playing_Game.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink The_Doctor_Who_Role_Playing_Game.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Traveller_(role-playing_game).
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink VOR:_The_Maelstrom.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Video_game.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Virtual_reality.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Wargaming.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink WizKids.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLink Zipper_Interactive.
- FASA wikiPageWikiLinkText "FASA Corporation".
- FASA wikiPageWikiLinkText "FASA".
- FASA wikiPageWikiLinkText "The FASA Corporation".
- FASA foundation "1980".
- FASA industry Wargaming.
- FASA industry "Role-playing games".
- FASA keyPeople Jordan_Weisman.
- FASA keyPeople L._Ross_Babcock_III.
- FASA location Chicago.
- FASA location Illinois.
- FASA location United_States.
- FASA logo "250".
- FASA name "FASA Corporation".
- FASA products BattleTech.
- FASA products Crimson_Skies.
- FASA products Demonworld.
- FASA products Earthdawn.
- FASA products Renegade_Legion.
- FASA products Shadowrun.
- FASA products VOR:_The_Maelstrom.
- FASA wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:About.
- FASA wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Harebrained_Schemes.
- FASA wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_company.
- FASA wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- FASA subject Category:Companies_based_in_Chicago,_Illinois.
- FASA subject Category:Companies_disestablished_in_2001.
- FASA subject Category:Companies_established_in_1980.
- FASA subject Category:Role-playing_game_publishing_companies.
- FASA hypernym Publisher.
- FASA type Agent.
- FASA type Company.
- FASA type Organisation.