Steve Peterson typed up the ideas and spent hours reviewing the rules for the superhero role-playing game that George MacDonald had been working on, and which eventually became Champions (1981).
[1]: 145 MacDonald and Peterson had only enough money to allow them to print 1,500 copies of the game and hand-collated the pages to save money, and they sold their new game at Pacific Origins 1981; they were surprised at how well it sold, selling 1,000 of their 1,500 copies at the convention.
[1]: 145 After this early success, MacDonald and Peterson started Hero Games initially as a publishing label.
[1]: 145 MacDonald and Peterson opened an office for Hero Games in 1982 and asked Ray Greer to be their partner handling marketing and sales.
[1]: 211 Cybergames.com acquired Hero Games in 2000, and they hired Peterson as Vice President of Marketing and Product Development.