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Gen-Con saw the publication of Hobby Games: The 100 Best, where 100 Names in the industry selected what they considered to be the best game (they didn't write) and wrote about it. Courtesy of doccross we have the I've done that game too meme! Boldface means I have owned the game. Italics mean I have played the game. Underlined means I have run a campaign, tournament, or league in that game. The names of the authors of the section in the book are listed after the game. Acquire (Bruce C. Shelley) Amber Diceless (Nicole Lindroos) Amun-Re (Ian Livingstone) Ars Magica (Stewart Wieck) Axis & Allies [Computer Version Only] (Thomas M. Reid) Battle Cry (Tracy Hickman) BattleTech (Philip Reed) Blood Bowl (Justin Achilli) Bohnanza (Mike Selinker) Britannia (Tom Dalgliesh) Button Men [Only for The Winslow Button] (Greg Stolze) Call of Cthulhu (Monte Cook) Carcassonne (Steven E. Schend) Car Wars (Jeff Tidball) Champions (Bill Bridges) Circus Maximus (Stan!) Citadels (Tom Jolly) Civilization (Steven Savile) Cosmic Encounter (Bruno Faidutti) Cosmic Wimpout (Andrew Looney) Dawn Patrol (Skip Williams) Descent (Alan R. Moon) Diplomacy (Larry Harris) Dungeons & Dragons (Richard Garfield) Dynasty League Baseball (William W. Connors) El Grande (Christian T. Petersen) Empires in Arms (Alessio Cavatore) Empires of the Middle Ages (Timothy Brown) The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Allen Varney) Fire and Fury (Phil Yates) Flames of War (William Jones) Fluxx (Rick Loomis) Formula Dé (John Kovalic) The Fury of Dracula (Anthony J. Gallela) A Game of Thrones (Jesse Scoble) Gettysburg (Lou Zocchi) Ghostbusters (James Wallis) The Great Khan Game (James M. Ward) Hammer of the Scots (Gav Thorpe) Here I Stand (Uli Blennemann) A House Divided (S. Craig Taylor, Jr.) Illuminati (Scott Haring) Johnny Reb (Dana Lombardy) Junta (Darren Watts) Kingmaker (Greg Stafford) Kremlin (Lester Smith) Legend of the Five Rings (Wolfgang Baur) Lensman (Marc W. Miller) London's Burning (Ted S. Raicer) Lord of the Rings (Teeuwynn Woodruff) Machiavelli (Mike Breault) Magic: The Gathering (Jordan Weisman) Marvel Super Heroes (Steve Kenson) Metamorphosis Alpha (Gary Gygax) My Life with Master (Greg Costikyan) Mythos (John D. Rateliff) Napoleon's Last Battles (Chris "Gerry" Klug) Naval War (John Scott Tynes) Ogre (Erick Wujcik) Once Upon a Time (Marc Gascoigne) PanzerBlitz (Mike Bennighof) Paranoia (Steve Jackson) Pendragon (Shannon Appelcline) Pirate's Cove (JD Wiker) Plague! (Richard H. Berg) Power Grid (Martin Wallace) Puerto Rico (Tom Wham) Renaissance of Infantry (Joseph Miranda) RoboRally (James Ernest) RuneQuest (Paul Jaquays) The Settlers of Catan (Richard Dansky) Shadowfist (Ken St. Andre) Shadowrun (Steven S. Long) Shadows over Camelot (Peter Corless) Silent Death: The Next Millennium (Dale Donovan) Space Hulk (Matt Forbeck) Squad Leader (Ray Winninger) Stalingrad (Lewis Pulsipher) Star Fleet Battles (Bruce Nesmith) The Sword and the Flame (Steve Winter) Tales of the Arabian Nights (Jeff Grubb) Talisman (Shane Lacy Hensley) Terrible Swift Sword (Douglas Niles) Thurn and Taxis (Ed Greenwood) Ticket to Ride (Mike Fitzgerald) Tigris & Euphrates (Thomas Lehmann) Tikal (Warren Spector) Toon (David "Zeb" Cook) Traveller (Mike Pondsmith) Twilight Struggle (Zev Shlasinger) Unknown Armies (Kenneth Hite) Up Front (Sandy Petersen) Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (R. Hyrum Savage) Vampire: The Masquerade (George Vasilakos) Vinci (Kevin Wilson) War and Peace (R.A. Salvatore) Warhammer 40,000 (Jack Emmert) The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Chris Pramas) The Warlord (Steve Jackson) Wiz-War (John Wick) Which means that I've played 75% of the games (surprisingly high given the preponderance of ACW boardgames), owned 47% of the games (misleading, since a lot of boardgames were lost in moving or stolen by a former gaming group, and most of the card games were excess from peoples collections that I was given [usually for the pretty pictures]), and umpired 23% of the games (also surprisingly high since most of the games have no real capacity for umpiring, although we did have a number of fun boardgames where each side were playing in different rooms and umpires relayed what each side could see to add the Fog of War to a simulation). I also recognized 50% of the authors, although I've only met 7% of them...