Hexagames

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Hexagames
Industry Board games
Founded1982;41 years ago (1982)
Defunct1992 (1992)
Headquarters Dreieich, Germany
Key people
  • Langden Hensley
  • Jürgen Hagedorn
  • Joe Nikisch

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).

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History

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  [ de ], 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

Several Hexagames games received various awards or been nominated for Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year):

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  4. ↑ "Le Retoir de Seti". Jeux & Strategie (31): 13. February 1985 – via archive.org.
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  6. 1 2 Walker, Brian (October 1988). "McMulti". Games International (1): 13 – via archive.org.
  7. 1 2 3 Wittig, Reinhold (1988). Spielecollection No. 1 Spiele zur Schatzinsel. München Hugendubel. pp. 142–144. ISBN   9783880343559.
  8. ↑ Rühle, Rudolf (2003). "Vom Luxus zum Dumping". Spielbox. 5: 40–41.
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  10. ↑ "Infos zu Osiris". luding.org. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  11. ↑ "Infos zu Karrierepoker". luding.org. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
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