1950s in games

See also: 1940s in games and 1960s 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