title: Eon Products
text: # Eon Products
  
  Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.
  
  ## History
  
  In 1972, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge, Bill Eberle, and Bill Norton came together as the game design cooperative Future $Pastimes.^{:188}$ Seeking to publish their board game Cosmic Encounter, they met Ned Horn, who offered to invest in the game; several weeks later, Olotka, Kittredge, Eberle, and Horn created a new company, Eon Products, and Cosmic Encounter went to press in $1977.^{:188}$ Additionally, Allen Varney of Dragon Magazine claimed Olotka mentioned the idea of creating a collectible card game as early as 1979. Cosmic Encounter Online, a Flash version of Eon's original game, was released in $2003.^{:188}$
  
  The company also produced Hoax, Ruins, Quirks and Borderlands. The latter was implemented as the computer game Lords of Conquest (1986) published by Eon Software, Inc, and was re-released by Fantasy Flight games as Gearworld: The Borderlands. The year before, Eberle, Kittredge, and Olotka had designed Star Trek: The Enterprise 4 Encounter (1985), a board game that mixes combat and set collection, for West End $Games.^{:189}$ The trio also designed the 1979 Dune board game set in Frank Herbert's fantasy novels.
  
  