1950s in games

1950s in games

:"see also:" 1940s in games, 1960s in games

Games released or invented in the 1950s


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

ignificant 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.


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