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1975 in games

overview of game-related events during the year of 1975

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ4576907 ↗
Source-derived summary

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1975. For video games, see 1975 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1975

Significant game-related events in 1975

Chaosium Inc. was founded by Greg Stafford.

Fantasy Games Unlimited was founded by Scott Bizar.

Games Workshop was founded by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson.

Metagaming Concepts was founded by Howard Thompson.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1975 in games” as overview of game-related events during the year of 1975. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where games, overview and game-related can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as overview of game-related events during the year of 1975. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4576907. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “1975 in games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.