1997 Origins Award winners

The following are the winners of the 24th annual (1997) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1998:[1]

Category Winner Company Designer(s)
Best Abstract Board Game of 1997 Kill Doctor Lucky Cheapass Games Designer: James Ernest
Best Historical Board Game of 1997 Successors The Avalon Hill Game Company Designers: Mark Simonitch, Richard Berg
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game of 1997 Roborally Grand Prix Wizards of the Coast Designers: Glenn Elliot, Adam Conus, Tom Wylie
Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game of 1997 (tie) Wadjet: a Family Adventure Game Timbuk II, Inc. Graphic Designer: Dee Pomerleau
Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game of 1997 (tie) Successors The Avalon Hill Game Company Graphic Designer: Kurt Miller
Best Action Computer Game of 1997 Tomb Raider Square Software/Eidos Software
Best Roleplaying Computer Game of 1997 Final Fantasy VII Eidos Software
Best Strategy Computer Game of 1997 Sid Meier's Gettysburg Firaxis Designers: Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, Brian Reynolds
Best Amateur Game Magazine of 1997 Starry Wisdom Chaosium, Inc. Editors: Dustin Wright, Eric Vogt, Shannon Appel, Drashi Khendup
Best Professional Game Magazine of 1997 Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine Kenzer & Co. Developers: Jolly Blackburn, Brian Jelke, Steve Johansson, David Kenzer
Best Trading Card Game of 1997 Shadowrun Trading Card Game Limited Edition FASA Corp. Designers: Mike Nielsen, Jim Nelson, Mike Mulvihill
Best Traditional Card Game of 1997 Give Me the Brain Cheapass Games Designer: James Ernest
Best Card Game Expansion or Supplement of 1997 L5R—Time of the Void Five Rings Publishing Designer: Dave Williams
Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game of 1997 Shadowrun Trading Card Game Limited Edition FASA Corp. Graphic Designers: Jim Nelson, Mike Nielsen
Best Game-Related Novel of 1997 Planar Powers TSR, Inc. Author: J. Robert King
Best Game-Related Short Work of 1997 A Forty Share in Innsmouth Chaosium Author: C.J. Henderson
Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1997 Independence Day Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc. Designers: Chris Snyder, Matt Forbeck
Best Roleplaying Supplement of 1997 Delta Green Pagan Publishing Designers: Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, John Tynes
Best Roleplaying Game of 1997 Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Alderac Entertainment Group Designer: John Wick
Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1997 In Nomine Steve Jackson Games Graphic Designers: Jeff Koke, Derek Pearcy, Dan Smith
Best Historical Figure Miniatures Series of 1997 Charlie Company U.S. Army Figures RAFM Designer: Bob Murch
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Figure Miniature of 1997 Sisters of Battle Battle Squad (Seraphim) Games Workshop Designer: Jes Goodwin
Best Vehicular Miniature of 1997 Call of Cthulhu Roadster RAFM Designer: Bob Murch
Best Historical Miniatures Rules of 1997 Flint & Steel Clash of Arms Games Designer: Richard Kane
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Miniatures Rules of 1997 Deadlands: the Great Rail Wars Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc. Designer: Shane Lacy Hensley
Best New Play-by-Mail Game of 1997 Middle-earth PBM Fourth Age Circa 1000 Game Systems, Inc. Designers: William B. Feild Jr., Peter G. Stassun
Best Ongoing Play-by-Mail Game of 1997 Star Web Flying Buffalo, Inc. Designer: Rick Loomis
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Nuclear War Flying Buffalo, Inc. Designer: Douglas Malewicki
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame BattleTech Mechs & Vehicles Ral Partha Developer: Charles Crain
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Berg's Review of Games Publisher: Richard Berg
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Illuminati Play-by-Mail Adventure Systems, Flying Buffalo, Inc. Designer: Draper Kauffman
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Middle-earth Play-by-Mail Game Systems, Inc. Designers: William B. Feild Jr., Peter G. Stassun
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame The Courier Courier Publications Publisher: Dick Bryant
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Fire & Movement Baron Publishing, Diverse Talents, Inc.
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Steve Jackson Games
1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Strategy & Tactics SPI, 3W, Decision Games

References

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  1. ^ "Origins Award Winners for the Best Games 1997". The Duelist. No. 29. September 1998. pp. 68–69.
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