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
Significant game-related events of 2002 Paizo Publishing was founded by Lisa Stevens, Vic Wertz, and Johnny Wilson.
Deaths Date Name Age NotabilityUnknownRobert Charles Bell87-88Author about gamesJuly 29Ron Walotsky58Artist for Magic: The GatheringSeptember 17Denys Fisher84Board game designerNovember 6Sid Sackson82prolific games designerDecember 25Russ Berrie69Founder of toy and game company Russ Berrie and Company
See also 2002 in video gaming
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