1979 in games

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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1979. For video games, see 1979 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1979

• The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
• Cheops
• Chinese Farm (2nd edition)
• Circus Maximus
• The Creature That Ate Sheboygan
• Divine Right
• The Farming Game
• Godsfire
• Guess Who?
• The Mad Magazine Card Game
• The Mad Magazine Game
• Napoleon at Leipzig
• Star Fleet Battles
• Starfire
• Trivial Pursuit
• Villains and Vigilantes (tabletop role-playing game)

Games awards given in 1979

• Spiel des Jahres: Hare and Tortoise (first year given)

Significant games-related events of 1979

• Task Force Games founded by Allen Eldridge and Stephen Cole.

See also

• 1979 in video gaming