game: Federation & Empire

Stephen V. Cole and Allen Eldridge founded Task Force Games in 1980. Cole left the firm in the early 1980 but continued to design its best-selling game series, Star Fleet Battles--a science fiction strategy game set in the Star Trek (television series) universe, but not licensed for use of that series title or characters. Many of Task Force Games' early games were micro-sized and packaged in resealable plastic bags. Later, larger editions appeared. The games are typically based on science-fiction or historic wars.