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Hexagames
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). HistoryHexagames 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, 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] AwardsSeveral Hexagames games received various awards or been nominated for Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year):
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