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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2002. For video games, see 2002 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 2002

  • 1313 Dead End Drive
  • 30 Seconds
  • A Game of Thrones collectible card game
  • Age of Steam
  • Apples to Apples - Expansion Set #4
  • Apples to Apples Junior
  • Arimaa
  • BattleDragons (role-playing game)
  • Brain Chain
  • The Burning Wheel (role-playing game)
  • Car Wars (5th Edition)
  • Carcassonne - Hunters and Gatherers
  • Carcassonne - Inns and Cathedrals
  • Cartoon Action Hour (role-playing game)
  • Chez Greek
  • Children of the Sun (role-playing game)
  • Clans
  • d20 Modern (role-playing game)
  • Deadlands: Lost Colony
  • Demon: The Fallen (role-playing game)
  • Diceland (tile game)
  • Diceland - Deep White Sea
  • Donjon (role-playing game)
  • DragonStrike
  • Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium
  • Dungeons & Dragons: The Fantasy Adventure Board Game
  • Dust Devils (role-playing game)
  • Engel (role-playing game)
  • EverQuest Role-Playing Game
  • Fairy Meat - Wicked Things
  • Farscape Roleplaying Game
  • Fightball
  • Flames of War (first edition)
  • Frag Fire Zone
  • Frag PVP
  • Freeloader
  • The Game of Life Card Game
  • A Game of Thrones
  • Give Me the Brain (full color "Special Edition")
  • Godlike (role-playing game)
  • Great War at Sea: Great White Fleet
  • Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Red
  • Hammer of the Scots
  • HeroClix
  • Hundred Kingdoms
  • I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!
  • InSpectres (role-playing game)
  • Jadeclaw (role-playing game)
  • The Judge Dredd Role-playing Game
  • Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot
  • Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game
  • Lord of the Rings - Sauron
  • MechWarrior: Dark Age
  • Mexica
  • Munchkin 2: Unnatural Axe
  • Mutants & Masterminds (role-playing game)
  • Nanofictionary
  • NBA Showdown
  • Night Wizard! (role-playing game)
  • Paladin (role-playing game)
  • Panzer Grenadier: Afrika Korps - The Desert War
  • Panzer Grenadier: Arctic Front
  • Panzer Grenadier: Battle of the Bulge
  • Pirate's Cove
  • Puerto Rico
  • The Riddle of Steel (role-playing game)
  • RollerCoaster Tycoon
  • Rome at War II: Fading Legions
  • Save Doctor Lucky on Moon Base Copernicus
  • The Settlers of Canaan
  • The Settlers of the Stone Age
  • Silver Age Sentinels (role-playing game)
  • Sorcerer (role-playing game)
  • Spaceship Zero (role-playing game)
  • Star Hero (role-playing game)
  • Star Munchkin (role-playing game)
  • Star Trek Roleplaying Game (Decipher, Inc. version)
  • Star Wars Trading Card Game
  • Terra Primate (role-playing game)
  • Transhuman Space (role-playing game)
  • Trias
  • Trollbabe (role-playing game)
  • Universalis (role-playing game)
  • Wallenstein
  • Xactika
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game (English version)
  • Zombies!!! 2: Zombie Corps(e)

Game awards given in 2002

  • Spiel des Jahres: Villa Paletti
  • Games: DVONN
  • Paizo Publishing founded.

Deaths

{| class="wikitable"

! Date || Name || Age || Notability

|-

|Unknown

|Robert Charles Bell

|87-88

|Author about games

|-

|July 29

|Ron Walotsky

|58

|Artist for Magic: The Gathering

|-

|September 17

|Denys Fisher

|84

|Board game designer

|-

|November 6

|Sid Sackson

|82

|prolific games designer

|-

|December 25

|Russ Berrie

|69

|Founder of toy and game company Russ Berrie and Company

|}

See also

  • 2002 in video gaming

References