Flying Buffalo

Loomis added games and players while introducing computer moderation and soon incorporated into the company Flying Buffalo Inc.

Flying Buffalo acquired its 10,000th customer account number in 1980 and reached its largest size of 21 employees in 1983.

[7] After leaving the military in 1972, Rick Loomis incorporated his PBM company as Flying Buffalo, Inc., or FBI.

[3]: 35  In 1975 they published Tunnels & Trolls, a fantasy role playing game generally similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and Viva!

Later products included background materials for fantasy role playing games, which became the "Catalyst" series.

The company purchased another Raytheon computer from a local doctor's office, which promised to speed printing by an order of magnitude (although it initially was missing some key required equipment).

[14] In 1992, the fiction book Mage's Blood and Old Bones: A Tunnels & Trolls Shared World Anthology was published by Flying Buffalo.

[15] Following the dissolution of TSR in 1997, Flying Buffalo remains the oldest pen-and-paper role-playing game publisher in the world.

[citation needed] The company also produced a beta version of a video game called Buffalo Tales.

A Raytheon Data Systems 704. Used here as an onsite seismic data processing system in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1974