Darwin Bromley is the co-founder of Mayfair Games, a board game collector, and railroad game enthusiast, creating the first crayon-style train game with Bill Fawcett in 1980. At Mayfair Games he was responsible for initiating the process of importing expensive German games and in 1995 for hiring Jay Tummelson, the future founder of Rio Grande Games. He is also responsible for introducing Christian Petersen, the future founder and CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, to German board games with a game of Settlers of Catan in 1996.