[2] Advanced Phantasm Adventures was released in 1988, and was described by Dragon as a rich and complicated fantasy role-playing game system.

[3] The rules was first printed as an independent publication, just as Dungeons & Dragons was reaching the height in American popularity in the late 1980s.

[2] He attended the International Christian University in Mitaka Japan, with the aspiration of learning Japanese for cartoon translation.

Working through their Artbox brand division, he released numerous books and manuals that exemplified Japanese language radical role-playing games.

[5] Notably the Phantasm Adventure rules allowed for a large scope of playable races, unseen before this game, numbering more than fifty.

All three books expanded upon the universe of Villains & Vigilantes, with the Devil's Domain being reviewed in the Space Gamer magazine.

[12] Distinctively ahead of his time, Troy Christensen produced a wide range of games and sold them not just in the United States, but also in Japan.