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board Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * Paperboard * Fiberboard ** Hardboa ...

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card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card g ...

wargame A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a realistic simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to s ...

miniatures games Miniatures games are a form of tabletop game which prominently features the use of miniature models or figures. War games One of the oldest and most popular miniatures game genres is that of war games, where figures are arranged into competing " ...

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tabletop role-playing game A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TRPG or TTRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech. Participan ...

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1991 in video gaming 1991 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as ''Street Fighter II'', ''Final Fantasy IV'', ''Super Castlevania IV'', ''Mega Man 4'', ''Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts'', and '' The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past'', along with new titles ...

Games Released or Invented in 1991

Game awards given in 1991

Spiel des Jahres The Spiel des Jahres (, ''Game of the Year'') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence ...

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Drunter und Drüber (, "under and over", " haywire") is a multiplayer board game invented by Klaus Teuber, first published in 1991 in Germany by Hans im Glück. A second edition was released in 1994 by Hans im Glück and featured art by Franz Vohwinkel. The game ...

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Deutscher Spiele Preis __NOTOC__ The Deutscher Spielepreis (, ''German Game Prize'') is an important award for boardgames. It was started in 1990 by the German magazine ''Die Pöppel-Revue'', which collects votes from the industry's stores, magazines, professionals a ...

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Origins Award The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 a ...

s: ** Best Roleplaying Rules: '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' ** Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame: ''Blackbeard'' ** Best Modern-day Boardgame: ''East Front'' ** Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame: ''

Cosmic Encounter ''Cosmic Encounter'' is a science fiction–themed strategy board game designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977. In it, each player ...

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GURPS Time Travel ''GURPS Time Travel'' is a sourcebook for ''GURPS''. It was written by Steve Jackson and John M. Ford and published in 1991. Contents ''GURPS Time Travel'' presents options to allow gamemasters to create systems to match their campaigns, includ ...

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Horror on the Orient Express ''Horror on the Orient Express'' is a campaign boxed set published by Chaosium in 1991 for the horror role-playing game '' Call of Cthulhu''. In this adventure, the player characters use the Orient Express to search for pieces of an artifact, ...

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Games A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (su ...

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Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

Significant games-related events in 1991

White Wolf, Inc. White Wolf Publishing was an American roleplaying game and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant

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Games Released or Invented in 1991

Game awards given in 1991

Significant games-related events in 1991

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