the United States Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson Games based on suspicion of illegal hacker activity by game designer Loyd Blankenship, and seized (among other materials and media) his manuscript for GURPS Cyberpunk; when Jackson went to Secret Service headquarters the next day to retrieve his book drafts, he was told that GURPS Cyberpunk was a "handbook for computer crime", despite his protestations that it was just a game. Through the newly created civil-rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, SJG filed a lawsuit against the government, which went to trial in 1993 as Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service. SJG won the lawsuit, receiving $50,000 in damages. Personal interests Jackson is an avid collector of Lego (especially pirate-themed ) sets. He has written a miniatures game that uses Pirate sets, Evil Stevie's Pirate Game, and has run it at several conventions. Jackson has combined his fondness for model trains and LEGO through the LEGO train community and has been an active member of several LEGO users groups including TBRR (Texas Brick Railroad) and the Texas LEGO Users Group. Honors Jackson has received over a dozen Origins Awards. In 1982, he became the youngest game designer to be inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame. His role-playing game GURPS and card game Munchkin were named to the Origins Hall of Fame for 1999 and 2012 respectively. He was honored as a "famous game designer" by being featured as the king of clubs in Flying Buffalo's 2011 Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck. References External links at SJgames.com Steve Jackson: Biography and Public Warning at SJgames.com Steve Jackson Games v. US Secret Service (1990 to 1993 legal case) at SJgames.com Interview by Tom Vasel, April 2005 1953 births Living people Role-playing game designers Board game designers Rice University alumni Discordians American gamebook writers Fighting Fantasy GURPS writers American game designers