Video games awards

Since the early days of video gaming history, the best of the best were awarded honors and accolades. Nowadays, video game awards are often seen on YouTube channels or even on TV, but in the past century (the 80s and the 90s) the primary source of golden medals was the plethora of video game magazines around. I'm talking about printed magazines like Edge, Crash, etc.; there was no Internet!

These are some of the many video game awards past and present, and the video games awarded (not only for DOS or Windows) are some of the best in the history of video gaming.

Every award list on Abandonware DOS was compiled by crossreferencing the official sites of each award and the Wikipedia. GOTY is an acronym that stands for Game Of The Year.

type	title	description
hall of fame	All-TIME 100 video games TIME.com	A list of the top 100 video games of all time according to website time.com.
award	BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards	BAFTA stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts and is annually hosted since 1998.
award	CODiE Awards	The CODiE Awards are annual awards given within the software industry. The name "CODiE" is derived from the word "code".
award	Electronic Games Arcade Awards	Electronic Games was the first dedicated video game magazine published in the United States and ran from October 15, 1981 to 1997 under different titles. The magazine is notable for holding the first Game of the Year Award ceremony, called the Arcade Awards.
GOTY	Electronic Gaming Monthly Game of the Year	Electronic Gaming Monthly is a video game magazine founded in 1988, still alive and well. Each year, the editors of Electronic Gaming Monthly chose a Game of the Year among games realeased for almost every system.
GOTY	Eurogamer Game of the Year	The winners of the Eurogamer Game of the Year are chosen by the site's editors.
award	Game Critics Awards (E3)	The Game Critics Awards are annual awards held after the E3 video game conference since 1998.
GOTY	Game Informer Game of the Year	The winners of the Game Informer Game of the Year are chosen by Game Informer editors. During their earlier years of publication they would give awards for the best game on each console available at the time, occasionally giving an award to the overall best game of the year.
GOTY	Game Informer Greatest Games (pre-1996)	The winners of the Game Informer Game of the Year are chosen by Game Informer editors. During their earlier years of publication they would give awards for the best game on each console available at the time, occasionally giving an award to the overall best game of the year.
GOTY	Games Magazine Game of the Year award	The winners of the Games magazine Game of the Year award are chosen by Games editors.
GOTY	Gamespot Game of the Year	The winners of the GameSpot Game of the Year are chosen by GameSpot editors.
award	Gamespot Greatest PC Games of all Time	The winners of the GameSpot Game of the Year are chosen by GameSpot editors.
award	Golden Joystick Awards	The Golden Joystick Awards is the second oldest gaming award ceremony and is the longest running video game award. As of 2014, it is the biggest video game award show in terms of the number of votes cast.
award	Interactive Achievement Awards (IAAs)	The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of industry professionals and presents a series of annual Interactive Achievement Awards.
GOTY	Mobygames Game of the Year	Mobygames is perhaps the biggest video game database on the Internet, as many of you already know. What you might now know is that Mobygames has a Games Of The Year award... well... sort of. The "best games" are automatically chosen among the ones with the highest review scores. That's why the GOTY chart can change from time to time.
GOTY	Omni Magazine Game of the Year	The games chosen as the year's best by Omni magazine, which was active from 1978 to 1995.
hall of fame	Rock Paper Shotgun Greatest PC games of all time	In 2017 Rock Paper Shotgun compiled a list of the 75 greatest PC games of all time. While a majority of them were published in recent years, there are quite a few good old classics we know and love.
award	Spotlight Awards (GDC)	The Spotlight Awards (GDC) was hosted annually by the Game Developers Conference from 1997 to 1999. Its focus was on the video and computer game industry.