[1]: 129 [2] Phoenix Games began as a partnership between Dan Bress and Phil Edgren, and was a successor to the company Little Soldier Games, to which Bress and Edgren had both contributed before that company closed.
[1]: 129 Phoenix Games also published the fantasy role-playing game supplements The Book of Shamans by Ed Lipsett and The Book of Treasure by Phil Edgren in 1978, and the fantasy adventure The Lost Abbey of Calthonwey by R. Norman Carter in 1979.
[5] Dana Lombardy's Streets of Stalingrad by Phoenix Games won the 1980 Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Initial Release Wargame.
[6] In the February 1981 issue of Dragon, another columnist noted that Phoenix Games "invested a very great deal in its massive Dana Lombardy-John Hill design Streets of Stalingrad", sparking rumors that the company would go out of business.
[2] Kerry Lloyd wrote a sequel to The Mines of Keridav called The Demon Pits of Caeldo, but Phoenix Games went out of business it could be published, so Lloyd started the gaming company Gamelords.