1982 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1982. For video games, see 1982 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1982

• Ant Wars
• Battle Damage: Code Red
• By the Sword!
• Continuo
• Dawn Patrol
• Fields of Action
• Fighting Fantasy
• Fringeworthy (role-playing game)
• FTL:2448 (role-playing game)
• Gangbusters (role-playing game)
• Man, Myth & Magic (role-playing game)
• Phase 10
• Sequence
• Survive!
• Star Frontiers (role-playing game)
• Star Trek: The Role Playing Game
• Starfleet Voyages (role-playing game)
• Swordbearer (role-playing game)
• True Dough Mania
• Wizards

Game awards given in 1982

• Spiel des Jahres: Enchanted Forest (German title is Sagaland)

Significant games-related events in 1982

• Trivial Pursuit published, becoming the first trivia game.
• TSR, Inc. purchases assets of Simulations Publications, Inc. following its bankruptcy.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
January 24	Karol Borsuk	76	Mathematician and board game designer
June 8	Harriet T. Righter	104	President of Selchow and Righter
September 23	Gene Day	31	Comics and games artist

See also

• 1982 in video games