A Secret Service official told Jackson that his company was issuing a “computer crime manual.”
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Only one game can be claimed on its own box as “previously confiscated by the US Secret Service.” This is the tabletop game “GURPS Cyberpunk” released by the board game company Steve Jackson Games in 1990.
In the early morning of March 1, 1990, at the home in Austin, Texas, Loyd Blankenship, the author of “GURPS Cyberpunk,” and his wife were accidentally broken into by six US Secret Service agents. Wake up. The group confiscated a computer, a printer, and their phone, and then took Brackenhip to Steve Jackson Games, where he worked, and repeated the above operation. The office wasn’t open yet, and Brackenhip, a disheveled figure, explained that he had the keys, and the agents almost broke through.
What happened?
The duty of American agents should be to block bullets for American citizens, but during that particular period, they raided a board game company. The company’s owner, Steve Jackson, recalled something back then.
“It’s too specific to remember.” Jackson said, “I wasn’t in the office when the guys were involved in a surprise attack. The company president was there, and he called me to report the situation and warned people outside ‘Don’t come in’-they don’t let anyone into the office. So, I didn’t see those people that day, but then I spent a lot of time dealing with them. “
The US Secret Service seized the computers that Jackson used to run BBS and all computers that contained GURPS Cyberpunk data. The game was not yet released. Agents tore open the box and broke a letter opener while trying to open a locked filing cabinet.