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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.

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Game of the Year
Australia (Temporarily Out of Stock)
List: $39.95 $26.95 (33% savings!)
Picked as GAMES magazine's 2007 Game of the Year, Australia is an area majority game set in Australia in the early 1920s. Players use planes and rangers to explore different territories in the continent, as they create camps, search for gold, and ...

Best Abstract Strategy Game
Project Kells: Tara Inspired by the Book of Kells and its mesmerizing patterns woven amongst the vellum pages, Project Kells evolved. Standing atop the Hill of Tara and contemplating the conjoined ringforts of Forradh and Teach Chormac, the games of Sacred Hill and High... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Advanced Strategy Game
Louis XIV #1 AMBS, English language edition
List: $29.95 $23.95 (20% savings!)
Slip on the role of clever court attendant and try your luck in the court of Louis XIV. Influence his next decrees. Relax in his radiance on his countless cushions. Bribe ministers and buy generals. Spin intrigue and spread your net in the empire of...

Best Family Game
Der Untergang von Pompeji Pompeji, the city at the foot of the Vesuvius, is at the high point of its development. When the inhabitants of Pompeii begin their daily work in the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., they don't suspect the forthcoming disaster. When Vesuvius erupts... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Family Card Game
Weinhändler English language edition Shiraz or Chardonnay? Chianti or Cabernet? In the world of wine auctions, you need to know when to buy and sell for the most profit. In Weinhändler, you compete to create the most valuable wine cellar. Buy the best wines you can acquire and arrange... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Family Card Game
Die Weinhändler A '98 Zinfandel for a 20 year old Bordeaux?! Sounds like a great exchange -- so you only pause briefly before you jump at the opportunity! The more noble -- and above all the more ripe -- vintages you store in your wine cellar, the better. Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Family Strategy Game
Primordial Soup English language edition of Ursuppe
List: $49.99 $39.25 (21% savings!)
You control a tribe of amoebas living in Earth's past trying to survive in the Primordial Soup. At first, your amoebas drift along, eating the nutrients that are available, but soon you'll have to figure out how to get to the rapidly depleting supply...

Best Family Strategy Game
Ursuppe Each player controls a tribe of primeval Amoebas, at a time in the earth's history when there are no higher forms of life. At the start of the game, the Amoebas can feed, multiply and move in an uncoordinated fashion. By buying Gene cards, players... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best 2-Player Game
Jambo English language edition
List: $24.95 $19.99 (20% savings!)
Jambo! is the friendly greeting Swahili traders offered their customers in Central Africa before colonization. The players are traders in this day, competing to be the first to earn 60 gold by selling tea, hide, fruits, salt, silk, and trinkets...

Best Party Game
Snorta! Get ready for laughter as your friends and family suddenly start sounding like they were born in a barn! In Snorta each player chooses the sound of a typical farm animal and the fun begins. As players quickly flip over cards, tongue-tied players... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
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