1979 in games

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

• 4th Dimension
• Asteroid Zero-Four
• The Awful Green Things from Outer Space
• The Beastlord
• Belter ^[1]
• Bloodtree Rebellion
• Cerberus
• Cheops
• Chinese Farm (2nd edition)
• Circus Maximus
• Colony Delta
• The Creature That Ate Sheboygan
• Darkover
• Demons
• Divine Right
• Double Star
• Dune
• Earth Game
• The Farming Game
• Freedom in the Galaxy
• Godsfire
• Guess Who?
• Holy War
• Hot Spot
• Invasion of the Air-eaters
• John Carter: Warlord of Mars
• King Arthur
• Knights and Knaves
• The Legend of Robin Hood
• MAATAC
• The Mad Magazine Card Game
• The Mad Magazine Game
• Magic Realm
• Magic Wood
• Marine: 2002
• Napoleon at Leipzig
• Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk
• Sigma Omega
• Snapshot
• Space Future
• Sqwurm
• Star Fleet Battles
• Star Quest
• Starfall
• Starfire
• StarGate
• Streets of Stalingrad
• Survival / The Barbarian
• Swordquest
• Time War
• Titan Strike!
• Trivial Pursuit
• Vector 3
• Villains and Vigilantes (tabletop role-playing game)
• War of the Sky Cities
• Wizard's Quest
• Zargo's Lords

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.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
May	Charles Grant		Wargames author

See also

• 1979 in video gaming

Referneces

1. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4316/belter-mining-the-asteroids-2076