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.