1979

I Will Fight No More… Forever (1979) Board Game

I Will Fight No More… Forever (1979) Board Game

A board game box titled "The MAD Magazine Game from Parker Brothers" with cartoon illustrations of zany characters and currency bills in the background.

Mad Magazine Card Game (1979)

Box cover of "Divine Right" board game featuring fantasy artwork with armored knights on horses, a robed spellcaster, and ghostly figures in the sky, labeled for 2-6 players, ages 12 to adult by TSR Games.

Divine Right (1979)

Hyle (1979) Board Game

Hyle (1979) Board Game

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan (1979) Board Game

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan (1979) Board Game

"The Farming Game" board game box opened to display the game board, paper money, plastic game pieces, cards, and an instruction sheet on a white background.

The Farming Game (1979)

A worn cover of the board game "Crescendo of Doom," featuring a painted image of a soldier in profile with a ship and other soldiers in the background, and text describing it as a Squad Leader Gamette for tactical warfare on the Western Front, 1939-1941.

Crescendo of Doom: A Squad Leader Gamette (1979)

HexDame (1979)

Magic Realm (1979) Board Game

Magic Realm (1979) Board Game

Balance of Power (1979) Board Game

Balance of Power (1979) Board Game

Kensington (1979) Board Game

Kensington (1979) Board Game

The Longest Day (1979) Board Game

The Longest Day (1979) Board Game

Minden Playing Card Cricket (1979) Board Game

Minden Playing Card Cricket (1979) Board Game

Zargo’s Lords: Magic Duels for World Power (1979) Board Game

Zargo’s Lords: Magic Duels for World Power (1979) Board Game

The Mad Magazine Game (1979) Board Game

The Mad Magazine Game (1979) Board Game

Hot Spot (1979) Board Game

Hot Spot (1979) Board Game

Alt text: A worn cover of the "TITAN STRIKE! Battle for the Moon of Saturn" board game, showing illustrated spacecraft and astronauts on a lunar landscape with Saturn and its rings in the background.

Titan Strike! Battle for the Moon of Saturn (1979)

Super Simon (1979) Board Game

Super Simon (1979) Board Game

Guess Who? (1979) Board Game

Guess Who? (1979) Board Game

Battle: The Game of Strategy (1979) Board Game

Battle: The Game of Strategy (1979) Board Game

Arcola: The Battle for Italy, 1796 (1979) Board Game

Arcola: The Battle for Italy, 1796 (1979) Board Game

Demons: The Game of Evil Spirts (1979) Board Game

Demons: The Game of Evil Spirts (1979) Board Game

Star Fleet Battles (1979) Board Game

Star Fleet Battles (1979) Board Game

Star Fleet Battles (Designer’s Edition) (1979) Board Game

Star Fleet Battles (Designer’s Edition) (1979) Board Game

Alt-text: The image shows the cover of a game titled "MAGIC REALM," featuring a large illustration of a wizard-like figure with a flowing white beard overshadowing a scene of three adventurers fighting a green dragon. The artwork has a vintage fantasy style and is printed with the Avalon Hill Game Company logo and a product number at the bottom.

Magic Realm (1979)

Asteroid Zero-Four (1979) Board Game

Asteroid Zero-Four (1979) Board Game

Book of Lists Game (1979) Board Game

Book of Lists Game (1979) Board Game

A vintage science fiction game cover titled "HOLY WAR", featuring a space scene with a planets, stars, and spacecraft, labeled "MicroGame 13 $2.95" at the bottom.

Holy War (1979)

Star Quest (1979)

Darkover (1979)

The Allowance Game (1979) Board Game

The Allowance Game (1979) Board Game

A boxed board game titled "Cathedral," displaying a medieval themed graphic design and text that describes the game as a tactical game of strategy and skill in three languages (English, Spanish, and German).

Cathedral (1979)

Nevo (1979) Board Game

Nevo (1979) Board Game

Cover of "Invasion of the Air-Eaters" MicroGame 12 showing a vintage sci-fi illustration of giant octopus-like creature attacking a city, with terrified people in the foreground and a price of $2.95 at the bottom.

Invasion of the Air-eaters (1979)

Freedom in the Galaxy: The Star Rebellions, 5764 AD (1979) Board Game

Freedom in the Galaxy: The Star Rebellions, 5764 AD (1979) Board Game

Starfall (1979) Board Game

Starfall (1979) Board Game

Seti (1979) Board Game

Seti (1979) Board Game

The Beastlord (1979) Board Game

The Beastlord (1979) Board Game

The image shows a board game box titled "THE AWFUL GREEN THINGS FROM OUTER SPACE" with cartoonish artwork of a yellow, startled-looking character facing green, blob-like monsters with eyes on stalks. Below is a tagline "A PREPOSTEROUS SPACE GAME FOR 2 PLAYERS, AGES TO ADULT, PLAYING TIME 30 TO 60 MINUTES." There is also the TSR Games logo with a location in Lake Geneva, WI.

The Awful Green Things From Outer Space (1979)

Box cover of "I VANT TO BITE YOUR FINGER" board game depicting a cartoon vampire, a smiling young boy pointing at a clock, and images of the game components with text indicating it's for 2 to 4 players ages 5 and up.

I Vant to Bite Your Finger (1979)

The Farming Game (1979) Board Game

The Farming Game (1979) Board Game

War of the Networks (1979) Board Game

War of the Networks (1979) Board Game

A board game box for "JUNTA," labeled "The Classic Game in a New Outfit" featuring illustrated caricatures of military figures in uniforms, with the logos of publishers Pegasus Spiele and AEG.

Junta (1979)

Napoleon at Leipzig (1979) Board Game

Napoleon at Leipzig (1979) Board Game

The image shows the cover of a board game titled "THE BEASTLORD," described as "A game of Wizardry and Warfare." The cover art features a muscular beast-like creature with horns and a cape, standing in a dark, eerie landscape with a cast spells with skulls and a black serpentine creature nearby. A winding path leads to a distant castle, and the borders are decorated with fantasy-themed illustrations including dragons and magical symbols.

The Beastlord (1979)

Um Reifenbreite (1979) Board Game

Um Reifenbreite (1979) Board Game

Quod (1979)

Alt text: Vintage board game box titled "THE THIN RED LINE - A GAME OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO" featuring an illustration of soldiers in red uniforms fighting in battle.

The Thin Red Line: A Game of the Battle of Waterloo (1979)

Raiders and Traders: The Heroic Age of Greece (1979) Board Game

Raiders and Traders: The Heroic Age of Greece (1979) Board Game

USAC Auto Racing (1979) Board Game

USAC Auto Racing (1979) Board Game

A board game box cover for "MARINE: 2002," depicting a sci-fi illustration with spaceships, astronauts, and the Earth in the background, suggesting a theme of the first Lunar War.

Marine: 2002 – A Game of the First Lunar War (1979)

Intern (1979) Board Game

Intern (1979) Board Game

Empire: Triumphs and Humilations for Power (1979) Board Game

Empire: Triumphs and Humilations for Power (1979) Board Game

Bloodtree Rebellion: Guerilla Warfare on the Planet Somber (1979) Board Game

Bloodtree Rebellion: Guerilla Warfare on the Planet Somber (1979) Board Game

Darkover (1979) Board Game

Darkover (1979) Board Game

Jackpot Payoff (1979) Board Game

Jackpot Payoff (1979) Board Game

Commando (1979) Board Game

Commando (1979) Board Game

Big Boggle (1979) Board Game

Big Boggle (1979) Board Game

Dead Stop! (1979) Board Game

Dead Stop! (1979) Board Game

Amirauté (1979) Board Game

Amirauté (1979) Board Game

Naval War (1979) Board Game

Naval War (1979) Board Game

Swordquest (1979) Board Game

Title Bout (1979) Board Game

Title Bout (1979) Board Game

Divine Right (1979) Board Game

Divine Right (1979) Board Game

A photo of a tabletop game box titled "Entropy Worlds Collide" with silhouettes of people looking towards a vivid sky with swirling clouds reflected on water, featuring names Allen Chang, Alistair Kearney, and Mike Yakovlev, along with the logos of Rule & Make.

Hyle (1979)

Board game cover depicting a giant green monster rampaging through a city with frightened people in the foreground, titled "The Creature That Ate Sheboygan," placed on a wooden surface.

The Creature That Ate Sheboygan (1979)

The Campaign for North Africa: The Desert War 1940-43 (1979)

An old photograph depicting a military tank with soldiers, with the title "ARMOR AT KURSK" at the top, set against a background of a grassy field with yellow flowers. The image has signs of wear and tear.

Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk (1979)

Murfreesboro: A Game of the Battle of Stones River December 31, 1862 (1979) Board Game

Murfreesboro: A Game of the Battle of Stones River December 31, 1862 (1979) Board Game

The Thin Red Line: A Game of the Battle of Waterloo (1979) Board Game

The Thin Red Line: A Game of the Battle of Waterloo (1979) Board Game

Leningrad (1979)

The Longest Day (1979)

Touché (1979) Board Game

Touché (1979) Board Game

Double-Play Baseball (1979) Board Game

Double-Play Baseball (1979) Board Game

Star Quest (1979) Board Game

Star Quest (1979) Board Game

Screwball Scramble (1979) Board Game

Screwball Scramble (1979) Board Game

Streets of Stalingrad (1979)

Marita-Merkur: The Campaign in the Balkans, 1940-41 (1979) Board Game

Marita-Merkur: The Campaign in the Balkans, 1940-41 (1979) Board Game

La Bataille d’Espagnol-Talavera (1979) Board Game

La Bataille d’Espagnol-Talavera (1979) Board Game

The Legend of Robin Hood (1979) Board Game

The Legend of Robin Hood (1979) Board Game

Double Star (1979)

A tabletop game titled "WAR OF THE SKY CITIES" by Bob McLeod, displayed on a flat surface with bubble wrap to its left. The cover features monochrome artwork of a futuristic battle with robots and spaceships. The game is produced by Fantasy Games Unlimited Inc.

War of the Sky Cities (1979)

Cover of the board game "Asteroid Zero-Four," featuring a stylized outer space scene with an asteroid outfitted with domed structures, satellites, and a spaceship in the forefront, against a starry backdrop with the title in large red and yellow letters at the top. The bottom of the cover notes "Task Force Game #2."

Asteroid Zero-Four (1979)

Snapshot (1979) Board Game

Snapshot (1979) Board Game

Cover of "Survival: A Task Force Double Game" featuring an illustrated spaceman being menaced by a dinosaur to the left and a warrior, labeled "The Barbarian," with a sword and lightning in the background to the right.

Survival / The Barbarian (1979)

Red Star/White Eagle: The Russo-Polish War, 1920 (1979) Board Game

Red Star/White Eagle: The Russo-Polish War, 1920 (1979) Board Game

Circus Maximus (1979) Board Game

Circus Maximus (1979) Board Game

Starfire (1979) Board Game

Starfire (1979) Board Game

Reich: The Iron Dream of German Unification (1979) Board Game

Reich: The Iron Dream of German Unification (1979) Board Game

Mad Magazine Card Game (1979) Board Game

Mad Magazine Card Game (1979) Board Game

Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk (1979) Board Game

Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk (1979) Board Game

Vector 3: Tactical Space Combat in Three Dimensions (1979) Board Game

Vector 3: Tactical Space Combat in Three Dimensions (1979) Board Game

Superpoly (1979) Board Game

Superpoly (1979) Board Game

Alien (1979) Board Game

Alien (1979) Board Game

A tabletop game box titled "BLOODTREE REBELLION - Guerrilla Warfare on the Planet Somber" from Game Designers' Workshop, featuring monochrome artwork of a fantastical forest scene with large trees and armed figures hiding among the foliage.

Bloodtree Rebellion: Guerilla Warfare on the Planet Somber (1979)

The China War: Sino-Soviet Conflict in the 1980s (1979)

A weathered board game box for "CIRCUS MAXIMUS" featuring an illustration of a chariot race in ancient Rome, with charioteers driving horses amidst a large cheering crowd and classical Roman architecture in the background.

Circus Maximus (1979)

Ney vs. Wellington: The Battle of Quatre Bras (1979) Board Game

Ney vs. Wellington: The Battle of Quatre Bras (1979) Board Game

King Arthur: The Battle of Stonehenge 536 (1979) Board Game

King Arthur: The Battle of Stonehenge 536 (1979) Board Game

Stop Thief (1979) Board Game

Stop Thief (1979) Board Game