The products listed were rated as "bestsellers" in the month of January in our telephone survey of game stores around the country. The number to the left is the total number of times that game was mentioned in the top three in each sales category, for the month of January, 1985. Role-Games 15 Twilight:2000 (Game Designers' Workshop) 14 Dungeons & Dragons (TSR Inc.) 12 Marvel Superheroes (TSR Inc.) 7 Champions (Hero Games) 5 Dungeons & Dragons modules (TSR Inc.) 5 Indiana Jones (TSR Inc.) 5 Paranoia (West End Games) 4 Middle Earth Role-Playing (Iron Crown Enterprises) 4 RuneQuest III (The Avalon Hill Game Co.) 3 James Bond 007 (Victory Games Inc.) 3 Star Trek (FASA Corp.) Role-Game Miniatures (25 mm) 16 Dragon of the Month (Grenadier Models) 9 Fantasy Lords (Grenadier Models) 7 Ral Partha Blisterpacks (Rai Partha) WarGames 9 Squad Leader (The Avalon Hill Game Co.) 8 Vietnam (Victory Games Inc.) 6 Assault (Game Designers' Workshop) 6 Axis & Allies (Milton Bradley Co.) 5 Ambush! (Victory Games Inc.) 4 Conquest of the Empire (Milton, Bradley Co.) 4 Star Fleet Battles (Task Force Games) 4 Third World War (Game Designers' Workshop) 3 Boots & Saddles (Game Designers' Workshop) 3 Car Wars (Steve Jackson Games Inc.) 3 Civil War (Victory Games Inc.) 3 NATO (Victory Games Inc.) 3 Spain & Portugal, Europa Series (Game Designers' Workshop) War Game Miniatures 8 Colonials, 25 mm (Ral Partha Enterprises) 7 Napoleonics, 15 mm (Minifigs) 4 Ancients, 15 mm (Minifigs) 3 Sword and the Flame, 15 mm (Minifigs) 3 MicroArmour (GHQ) 2 Starline 2200 (Task Force Games) "if I divided the sales of Twilight: 2000 in half, it would place first and second as my bestsellers. I couldn't keep it in stock." --Robert Bodine, The Compleat Strategist, Falls Church, VA "Grenadier is doing another year of Dragon of the Month. Everybody I told about it was excited." --Karen Shutt, Kings Crown, Overland Park, KS Adult Games 15 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective (Sleuth Publications) 14 Trivial Pursuit (Selchow & Righter) 6 221 B Baker Street (John N. Hanson Co. Inc.) 4 Diplomacy (The Avalon Hill Game Co.) 4 Pente (Parker Brothers) 4 Superstar Wrestling (Super Star Game Co.) 3 Civilization (The Avalon Hill Game Co.) 2 Acquire (The Avalon Hill Game Co.) 2 Enchanted Evening (Games Partnership Ltd.) 2 Mid-Life Crisis (John N. Hanson Co. Inc.) 2 Sexual Trivia (Barton-Scott Publishing) Back to Table of Contents -- Game News #2 To Game News List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Dana Lombardy. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com