1974 Origins Award winners

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]

## Charles Roberts Awards

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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

## Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductee

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* Don Turnbull

## References

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1. ^ "The 1974 Origins Awards". Archived from the original on 2012-12-16. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
2. ^ The Evolution of Origins: The National Convention af Five by John Prados, Moves, #45, June/July 1979, p.5
3. ^ John Mansfield, resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba and long time gamer, is manager of Pendragon Games & Hobbies as of 2014.
4. ^ The Evolution of Origins: The National Convention af Five by John Prados, Moves, #45, June/July 1979, p.10
5. ^ 31 May 1988 - CSR AWARDS AUTHORIZATION Archived 6 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ Rise and Decline of the Third Reich at BoardGameGeek
7. ^ Manassas at BoardGameGeek

## External links

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* Charles S. Roberts Awards 1974: winners and nominees

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