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.

Game of the Year	DVONN  English language edition        List: $32.95 $26.50 (20% savings!) DVONN is a challenging stacking game with very simple rules. It is played with 3 red DVONN pieces, 23 white pieces, and 23 black pieces. The players must try to control as many pieces as possible by building stacks, preferably by jumping on top of...
Best Manual Dexterity Game	Villa Paletti     (Temporarily Out of Stock)     List: $24.99 $22.99 (8% savings!) The blockbuster European hit is now available from Wiggles 3D! Players compete to build a wooden tower without knocking it over. Always a crowd pleaser that anyone can play, Villa Paletti is the perfect building block for any party!
Best Historical Simulation Game	Wilderness War     Wilderness War takes two players into the French & Indian War, 1755-1760, the climactic struggle between France and Britain for control of North America. It uses strategy cards and a point-to-point map similar to GMT's award-winning For the People... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Family Card Game	Vom Kap bis Kairo     (Currently Unavailable)     $7.95 In 1850, most countries in the world already had several hundred kilometers of railway tracks in use. 20 years later, the railway tracks covered the American continent; and in 1902, with the opening of the Trans-Siberian Express, Asia was also...
Best Advanced Strategy Game	Puerto Rico  English language edition        List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!) The most critically acclaimed board game of the last twenty years, Puerto Rico continues to wow people with its brilliant mechanics. Each player utilizes different roles (Mayor, Captain, Settler, Trader, Prospector, Craftsman, or Builder) to score...
Best Family Strategy Game	Mexica  English language edition        List: $37.95 $30.35 (20% savings!) As they wandered through Mexico, the Aztec, or Mexica, as they later called themselves, searched for the sign prophesied by their God, Huitzilopochtli: an eagle, perched on a cactus, eating a snake. There, they would settle. Many years later, in...
Best Manual Dexterity Game	Villa Paletti     In the land where the Lemons bloom, there once lived a wise old sage, whose friends called him "Paletti". He only had one goal in life, to finish the wonderful castle in the sky that his grandfather had begun to build many years before, but which... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Abstract Strategy Game	Pueblo  English language edition    Pueblo--the ultimate building challenge! Work with the other players to create a mighty home for the Chieftain, stone by stone. You are a craftsman but you cannot let the Chieftain see your trademark stones, or you will be penalized. The longer you... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Family Game	Emerald     (Currently Unavailable)     $28.95 Brand new baby dragon! The news spreads like wildfire! And everyone knows what this means: the mother dragon must have acquired a large hoard of gold and gems for the nest of her brood. All knights in the area want a chance at the treasure and race...
Best Party Game	Moods     The "official" object of the game is to most accurately portray and guess different moods by remembering the old adage "It's not what you say, it's how you say it." Which basically means you'll be acting crazed, arrogant, triumphant, or any number... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.