Games Magazine Awards

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Each year since 1980, GAMES Magazine has published a Buyer's Guide to Games in their year-end holiday issue. Except for once or twice in the early 1980s, the article has listed and reviewed one hundred games each year, and was thus dubbed The GAMES 100.

Early in the feature's history, the article served as a reference to many games available on the market, new and old, listing such long-time classic titles as Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble--and even the occasional toy like Frisbee. In later years, the feature has focused more and more on recognizing the best and most unique new board and card games.

In 1991, GAMES also began recognizing the favorites in each category with a special Best designation, and has selected one game from the whole list to receive the highest honor of Game of the Year.

Through the early 1990s, more and more electronic games were included in the list, with the computer game Myst even winning Game of the Year in 1994. Beginning the following year, computer and cartridge games were split off and given their own separate Electronic Games 100 section.

Best Historical Simulation Runner Up	Wings of War: Famous Aces         List: $34.95 $27.99 (20% savings!) Colorful biplanes fight each other in the foggy sky over the front. Can you manage to shoot down your enemies and become an ace, following in the steps of men as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Georges Guynemer and Francesco Baracca?
Best Abstract Strategy Game Runner Up	Siege Stones  First Edition        List: $24.95 $17.99 (28% savings!) Players take turns placing pieces (either stones or towers) on the board. Stones threaten towers, controlling them. Towers weaken stones. The more towers next to it, the less effective the stone. One well placed tower may free two others. One...
Best Family Game Runner Up	Gulo Gulo     (Restocking)     List: $39.95 $31.95 (20% savings!) The wolverine Gulo Gulo is always hungry, especially when near a nest of fresh eggs. Young wolverines love swamp eggs just as much as adults, but are not as careful. Thus, junior is caught and the family has to rescue him -- while getting eggs for...
Best Family Strategy Game Runner Up	Hansa     Compete to become Master of the Hanseatic city-states during the 14th Century. Criss-cross the Baltic Sea in a merchant ship, always on the lookout for a chance to acquire valuable wares. Set up networks of market booths within the cities, which... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Family Card Game Runner Up	Scream Machine         List: $15.00 $11.99 (20% savings!) Summertime is here, and amusement park barons are competing for the mad throngs of customers looking for excitement. But what do these customer want? Do you build the Barf and Twirl or go all out to build The Scream Machine? Players compete for...
Best Advanced Strategy Game Runner Up	Goa     At the beginning of the 16th century: beautiful beaches, wonderful climate, and one of the most important trading cities in the world. Competing companies trade with spices and send their colonists into the world and invest their money. Of most... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Abstract Strategy Game Runner Up	Siege Stones  Second Edition        List: $24.95 $19.99 (20% savings!) Players take turns placing pieces (either stones or towers) on the board. Stones threaten towers, controlling them. Towers weaken stones. The more towers next to it, the less effective the stone. One well placed tower may free two others. One...
Best Party Game Runner Up	Words of Wiz-Dumb         List: $28.00 $25.95 (7% savings!) What friend would give advice like this?! That's what you need to figure out! Race up the mountain trying to match which player dished out which advice (good and bad) in this uproarious family/party game.
Family Game Nominee	King Me!  Mayfair's edition of Viva Il Re!    With the announcement of the King's retirement, the pirouette for succession begins! All of his subjects from cobbler to cook, painter to paladin, debutante to duchess bustle about the castle in preparation for the succession. One of your favorites... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Family Game Nominee	The Ark of the Covenant     Joshua has led the children of Israel into the Promised Land and you have been given the unique responsibility to develop the area by building roads, cities, temples and raising sheep. Deploy a Prophet into the cities to preach repentance. Take on... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.