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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==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *''Ant Wars''<ref name="WW43">{{Cite magazine |last=Rolston |first=Ken |authorlink=Ken Rolston |date=May 1994|title=Treasures from the Archives |magazine= White Wolf Magazine |number=43 |page=61-62 |url=https://imgur.com/a/4USv3L8}}</ref> *''Battle Damage: Code Red'' *''By the Sword!'' *''Continuo'' *''Duel Magical'' *''Dawn Patrol'' *''Fields of Action'' *''Fighting Fantasy'' *''Fringeworthy'' (''role-playing game'') *''FTL:2448'' (''role-playing game'') *''Gangbusters'' (role-playing game)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gangbusters: 1920's Role-Playing (1st edition box set) |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL10159670M/Gangbusters |website=Open Library |publisher=TSR Hobbies |access-date=11 November 2025 |date=1982}}</ref> *''Man, Myth & Magic'' (role-playing game) *''Phase 10'' *''Sequence'' *''Survive!'' *''Star Frontiers'' (''role-playing game'') <ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.blackgate.com/2020/07/22/protect-the-frontier-star-frontiers-roleplaying/| title = Protect the Frontier: Star Frontiers Roleplaying| last = Kanouse| first = Patrick | date = 22 July 2020 | work=Black Gate (magazine)| access-date = 21 November 2025}} </ref> *''Star Trek: The Role Playing Game'' *''Starfleet Voyages'' (''role-playing game'') *''Starship Captain'' *''Swordbearer'' (''role-playing game'') *''True Dough Mania'' *''Wizards'' }}
==Game awards given in 1982== thumb|Pieces from the original German ''Sagaland'' game, winner of the 1982 Spiel des Jahres prize * Spiel des Jahres: ''Enchanted Forest'' (German title is ''Sagaland'')<ref>{{cite web |title=Sagaland |url=https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/en/spiele/sagaland/ |website=Spiel des Jahres |access-date=11 November 2025 |language=de}}</ref>
==Significant games-related events in 1982== *''Trivial Pursuit'' published, becoming the first trivia game.{{dubious|date=November 2025|reason=Trivial Pursuit article says 1981}} *TSR, Inc. purchases assets of Simulations Publications, Inc. following its bankruptcy.{{dubious|date=November 2025|reason=TSR's history says 1983 [https://web.archive.org/web/20080924195557/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDArchives_History.asp]}}
==Deaths== {| class="wikitable" ! 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<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=juVUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gene+day%22+august+1951 | title= ''Master of Kung Fu''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> Gene Day Dead at 31| work=The Comics Journal | issue=77 |date=November 1982|page=14}} Also: Obituary, p. 6</ref> |31 |Comics and games artist |}
==See also== * 1982 in video games
==References== {{reflist}}
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