1950s in games

Games released or invented in the 1950s

  • Afrikan tähti (1951)
  • Yahtzee (1954)
  • Tactics (1954)
  • Careers (1955)
  • Jotto (1955)
  • Perquackey (1955)
  • Risk (1957, in French as La Conquête du Monde)
  • Gettysburg (1958)
  • RSVP (1958)
  • Diplomacy (1959)

Significant games-related events in the 1950s

  • Avalon Hill Game Company founded by Charles S. Roberts to publish the first board wargame, Tactics. For many years Avalon Hill was a dominant maker of wargames.[1]

References

  1. ^ Avalon Hill's General Magazine Index and Company History 1952-1980 Volume 1- Volume 16 page5
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