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This is the Games 100 List from 1987.

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It is worthwhile to note that for this year of the Games 100, the games were merely listed by category with no named game of the year or category selections. As with other years of the games 100, the list included items that were not necessarily produced in that year. The 1987 Games 100 was the first of three years where there were not 100 games reviewed.

The game designer names are typically not included with these lists. This information was researched from the Boardgamegeek website while designer names in parenthesis were determined exclusively from information from other websites.

#
Game
Publisher
(Designer)

Words


1
Jitters
Milton Bradley
Uncredited
2
The Next Word
Decipher
Unknown
3
Boggle Bowl
Parker Brothers
Uncredited
4
Scrabble Word Rummy
Selchow & Righter
Uncredited

Mystery and Deduction


5
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Game
Mayfair Games
Darwin Bromley/Laird A. Brownlee
6
Clue II VCR Mystery Game
Parker Brothers
Uncredited

Pure Strategy


7
Magic 4
Discovery Toys
Uncredited
8
Super Chess
Super Chess, Inc.
Ed Ginsberg
9
Sceptre 1027 A.D.
Horizon Games
Uncredited
10
First to Five
Tedco
Uncredited
11
Lemma
Kadon Enterprises
Kate Jones
12
Bazaar
Discovery Toys
Sid Sackson
13
Traverse
Glacier
John Miller/Michael Kuby
14
No Dice
Decipher
Jim Winslow/Tom Braunlich
15
Cathedral
Mattel
Robert P. Moore

Questions and Answers


16
20 Questions
Pressman
Uncredited
17
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Pressman
Uncredited
18
Alva
University Games
Uncredited
19
Fast Fax
Games Gang
Uncredited
20
Sale of the Century
American Publishing
Uncredited

War Games


21
Platoon
Avalon Hill
S. Craig Taylor
22
Shogun
Milton Bradley
Michael Gray
23
Onslaught: D-Day to the Rhine
TSR
Douglas Niles
24
Britannia
Avalon Hill
Lewis Pulsipher
25
Knights of the Air
Avalon Hill
Mick Uhl
26
Chickamauga
West End Games
Jon Southard/Richard H. Berg
27
2nd Fleet
Victory Games
Joseph M. Balkoski

Fantasy and Science Fiction


28
Kings & Things
West End Games
Doug Kaufman/Robert J. Kuntz/Tom Wham
29
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Games Workshop
Steve Jackson (II)
30
Dark Blades
Standard / Excalibre
Andy McKay/Chris Bayliss
31
Rogue Trooper
Games Workshop
Richard Halliwell
32
OGRE: Deluxe Ogre
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson (I)
33
Isaac Asimov's Star Trader
Steve Jackson Games
David Ladyman
34
Traveller: 2300
Game Designers Workshop
(Marc W. Miller/Timothy B. Brown/Lester W. Smith/Frank Chadwick)
35
Star Wars (role-playing game)
West End Games
Greg Costikyan

Power Struggles


36
Power
Power Games International
Monte B. Young
37
Ultimatum
Bates Games
Fred Bates
38
Way of the Warrior
Ronin Enterprises
Uncredited
39
Legend of Camelot
Hoyle
Uncredited
40
Emperor's Challenge
Discovery Toys
Uncredited

Puzzles


41
The Puzzler
Denver Mold Engineering
Unknown
42
Spin Out
Binary Arts
(William Keister)
43
I-Qube
Amuse, Inc.
Unknown
44
Adams Cube
Adams Design
Unknown

Something Different


45
The Couch Potato Game
TDC Games
Larry Balsamo/Sandra Bergeson
46
The Broadway Game
TSR
Ernie Parmentier
47
The aMAZEing Labyrinth
Ravensburger
Max J. Kobbert
48
Win, Lose, or Draw
Milton Bradley
Uncredited
49
Ultimate Golf
Ultimate Gifts
Howard L. Walter
50
In Pursuit of Par
Pursuit of Par Enterprises
Uncredited
51
Jagger
Games Gang
Unknown
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