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)
 * Perquackey (1956)
 * 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.