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	Small World  remake of Vinci        List: $50.00 $44.99 (10% savings!) Small world is a civilization game where players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate them all!
Best Family Game	Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age         List: $29.95 $20.95 (30% savings!) Build a thriving civilization -- in under an hour! Collect goods, assign workers to build cities and erect monuments, advance your civilization through cultural and scientific developments, but don't forget to harvest enough food to feed your population.
Best Advanced Strategy Game	Le Havre  English language edition        List: $70.00 $55.99 (20% savings!) Le Havre is a game about managing a harbor, building ships and constructing buildings. On each turn, players must decide whether to take good of one type or to carry out a building action. At the end of the game, the player with the largest fortune wins.
Best Abstract Strategy Game	Blox     (Restocking)     $52.95 Who will build the most valuable towers with a mix of tactics and luck? Who will clear them away and collect the most points? And who will find the right moment to throw their opponent from the board?
Best Family Card Game	Amerigo         List: $14.99 $11.99 (20% savings!) It is the Age of Exploration, and fearless navigators set out on grand journeys to seek lands still unexplored. Amerigo Vespucci and others undertake bold travels to discover rare and precious wares from all over the world... hoping that they will...
Best Family Strategy Game	Dominion  AKA: Game X        List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!) Dominion is not a CCG, but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes complete with roughly 500 cards. You select 10 of the 20+ Kingdom card types to include in any given play -- leading to immense variety.
Best Family Strategy Game	Dominion: Intrigue         List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!) Dominion: Intrigue adds rules for playing with up to 8 players at two tables or for playing a single game with up to 6 players. This game adds 25 new Kingdom cards and a complete set of Treasure and Victory cards. The game can be played alone by...
Best Party Game	Dixit         List: $34.99 $27.99 (20% savings!) The illustrations are revealed. Their common point: an enigmatic sentence. But beware: one of the images is the key. Use finesse and intuition to find it without falling into the traps set by other players.
Best Puzzle	La Ora Stelo     The name means "The Golden Star" in Esperanto, and it's an original multi-polyform set based on combinations of the two golden triangles in groups of one, two and three. The 32 Lucite tiles are in 8 luminous translucent colors. Color arrangements may... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.
Best Historical Simulation	Fields of Fire         List: $75.00 $59.99 (20% savings!) Fields of Fire is a solitaire game of US 9th Infantry Regiment tactical combat during WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.