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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1996. For video games, see 1996 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1996

Game awards given in 1996

  • Origins Awards (for 1995):
  • Best Card Game: Middle-earth: The Wizards
  • Best Fantasy or Science-Fiction Board Game: Dragon Dice
  • Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game: RoboRally - Armed and Dangerous
  • Best Miniatures Rules: Warzone - A Fast & Furious Miniatures Battle Game
  • Best Modern-Day Board Game: Empire of the Rising Sun
  • Best Pre-20th Century Board Game (tie): Colonial Diplomacy, Three Days of Gettysburg
  • Best Roleplaying Rules: Mage: The Ascension (2nd edition)
  • Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame
  • Axis & Allies
  • Call of Cthulhu RPG
  • Games: 25 Words or Less
  • Five Rings Publishing Group formed as a spin-out of Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA.
  • Looney Labs is founded after the demise of Icehouse Games, Inc.

Deaths

{| class="wikitable"

! Date || Name || Age || Notability

|-

|April 17

|Piet Hein

|90

|Scientist and game designer

|-

|July 18

|Stephen Donaldson

|49

|Activist and wargame designer for Simulations Publications, Inc.

|-

|December 18

|Charles Deaton

|75

|Architect who designed Gusher (1946)

|}

See also

  • 1996 in video gaming

References