The following are the winners of the 1st annual (1974) Origins Award, presented at Origins Game Fair 1975:[1]
The awards were the "brainchild of Canadian hobbyist John Mansfield."[2][3] Originally the awards were the Origins Awards but were informally known as the Charles Roberts Awards[4] and it was only in 1988 that Charles Roberts officially agreed to let his name be used.[5]
Category | Winner | Company | Designer(s) |
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Best Professional Game | Third Reich | The Avalon Hill Game Company | Don Greenwood, John Prados [6] |
Best Amateur Game | Manassas | Historical Simulations | Tom Eller[7] |
Best Professional Magazine | Strategy & Tactics | SPI | |
Best Amateur Magazine | Albion | Don Turnbull |