1990 in games

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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1990. For video games, see 1990 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1990

• Ancients
• Battlelords of the 23rd Century (role-playing game)
• Careers for Girls
• Carrier
• Cyberpunk 2020 (role-playing game)
• De Bellis Antiquitatis
• Eurorails
• GURPS Cyberpunk (role-playing supplement)
• Hoity Toity
• Nightlife (role-playing game)
• Republic of Rome
• Rifts (role-playing game)
• Space Crusade
• Timelords 2nd Edition (role-playing game)
• Torg (role-playing game)

Game awards given in 1990

• Spiel des Jahres: Adel Verpflichtet (English name Hoity Toity)
• Deutscher Spiele Preis: Adel Verpflichtet

Significant games-related events in 1990

• GMT Games founded.
• Wizards of the Coast founded in Renton, Washington.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
January 12	Laurence J. Peter	70	Educator who designed The Peter Principle Game (1973)
February	Władysław Gliński		Game designer of Hexagonal Chess (1936)
May 22	Pat Reid	79	Author who designed Escape from Colditz
October 31	Roger Price	72	Co-developer of Mad Libs

See also

• 1990 in video gaming