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	BuyWord         List: $30.00 $23.99 (20% savings!) Mixing money and word skills may not sound like a good idea, but BuyWord does a tremendous job of it, allowing players to buy letters for a cost and then attempting to make a profit with the words they create in this GAMES magazine Game of the Year ...
Best Historical Simulation	Memoir '44         List: $50.00 $44.99 (10% savings!) From the cliffs of Pointe-du-Hoc to the hedgerow battles in the Corentin Peninsula and beyond -- Memoir '44 airdrops you into the key battles that turned the tide in Western Europe during the summer of 1944. Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Operation...
Best Family Strategy Game	Alexandros         List: $32.95 $26.35 (20% savings!) Alexander moves with army back and forth across Asia Minor, conquering the land as he passes. To bring peace to these newly conquered lands and to reward his generals, he gives them control of the new lands. The generals establish administration...
Best Advanced Strategy Game	Tahuantinsuyu  numbered limited edition of 1000    (Restocking)     List: $40.00 $31.95 (20% savings!) Tahuantinsuyu is the Quechua or Inca word for Land of the Four Regions. It is what the Inca called their own empire. The empire was organized as a pyramid-shaped hierarchy with the Sapa Inca as the supreme rules, followed by the four Apus, who were...
Best Party Game	Hoopla     Cranium Hoopla is the all-new, outrageously fun game where every second counts. Players rally together in a race against the clock as they add sound effects to impromptu performances, do hilarious sketches, come up with... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Abstract Strategy Game	YINSH         List: $32.95 $26.50 (20% savings!) YINSH is a tempestuous game! The players each start with 5 rings on the board. Every time a ring is moved, it leaves a marker behind. Markers are white on one side and black on the other. When markers are jumped over by a ring, they must be...
Best Family Game	Vanished Planet     A seething mass of darkness has appeared where Earth once was, and it's stretching out deadly tentacles towards the six homeworlds of the galaxy's other empires. The galaxy has been thrown into chaos; colonies are rebelling, workers are fleeing... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Family Card Game	Victory and Honor         List: $18.00 $14.50 (19% savings!) Over 100 years ago, the noble experiment that was the United States exploded into Civil War. The fight was about control of the government, it was about slavery, and the war would shape the hopes and dreams of generations. Years later, the proud...
Best Word Game	Word Rich     Word Rich is the highest scoring word game ever invented. If your strategy is right, thousands of points can be won on a single well designed word! The Game Board has more play opportunities than... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Word Game Runner Up	Wordigo     (Restocking)     List: $24.95 $20.95 (16% savings!) In Wordigo, everyone plays at the same time. No waiting for other players to complete their turns. Each player gets his/her own playing board and own set of letter tiles -- 4 sets of each. Players race against the clock and other players to...