1979 Origins Award winners

The following are the winners of the 6th annual (1979) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1980.[1]

Charles Roberts Awards

Category Winner Company Designer(s)
Best Pre-20th Century Game Napoleon at Leipzig OSG Kevin Zucker
Best 20th Century Game City Fight SPI Joseph Balkoski
Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Game The Creature That Ate Sheboygan SPI Greg Costikyan
Best Initial Release Ironclads Yaquinto John Fuseler
Best Professional Magazine Fire & Movement Rodger MacGowan & Baron Publishing
Best Amateur Magazine Perfidious Albion Charles Vasey

The H.G. Wells Awards

Category Winner Company Designer(s)
Best Historical Figure Series of 1979 System Seven Napoleonics GDW
Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Figure Series of 1979 Collectables Ral Partha
Best Vehicular Model Series of 1979 OGRE series Martian Metals
Best Miniatures Rules of 1979 System Seven Napoleonics GDW
Best Roleplaying Rules of 1979 Commando SPI
Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1979 Kinunir GDW
Best Magazine Covering Miniatures of 1979 The Courier
Best Magazine Covering Roleplaying of 1979 Journal of the Travellers Aid Society GDW
All Time Best 20th Century Naval Rules of 1979 General Quarters Brookhurst
All Time Best Ancient Medieval Rules of 1979 Chivalry & Sorcery Fantasy Games Unlimited

Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductee

  • David Isby

References

  1. ^ "Origins Award Winners 1980" (PDF). Retrieved January 10, 2024 – via The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design.