1950s 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.