Flying Buffalo
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Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gaming materials. The company's founder, Rick Loomis, began game publishing with Nuclear Destruction, a play-by-mail game which started the professional PBM industry in the United States. Loomis added games and players while introducing computer moderation and soon incorporated into the company Flying Buffalo Inc. The company published games in other genres, including card games such as Nuclear War and a role playing game called Tunnels & Trolls, a game similar to Dungeons & Dragons. Flying Buffalo acquired its 10,000th customer account number in 1980 and reached its largest size of 21 employees in 1983.
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Company type | Public |
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Industry | Role-playing game publisher, Play-by-mail game moderator |
Founded | January 1970[1] |
Headquarters | Scottsdale, Arizona |
Key people | Rick Loomis, Steve MacGregor, John Ward (Webbed Sphere CEO) |
Products | Tunnels & Trolls, Nuclear War |
Website | www |
In July 2021, Webbed Sphere bought Flying Buffalo with plans to incorporate Flying Buffalo's products. The PBM games were not included in the sale and were continued by a separate company called Rick Loomis PBM Games.