The products listed were rated as "bestsellers" during March in our monthly 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 two of each sales category Role Games 15 Twilight.2000 (Game Designers' Workshop) 11 Dungeons & Dragons* (TSR Inc,) 7 Paranoia (West End-Games)' Marvel Superheroes (TSR Inc.) Middle Earth Role-Playing (Iron Crown Enterprises). 3 Deluxe RuneQuest (The Avalon Hill 3 James Bond 007 (Victory Games Inc.) Top Secret (TSR Inc.) 2 Toon (Steve JacksonGames Inc.), Role-Game Miniatures 18 Dragon of the Month (Grenadier Modds) 17 Ral Partha's entire line 4 Ninjas and Samurai box set (Grenadier Models) 3 Fantasy Lords (Grenadier Models) 2 Dragon Lords (Grenadier Models) 2 Citadel (Games Workshop) 2 Teenage: Mutant Ninja Turtles (Dark Horse) "This quarter was good for role- playing games but war gaming has been on the slide." --Charles Brown Dream Wizard Rockville, MD "Grenadier's five-headed dragon ran out of here!" --Karen Shutt Kings Crown Overland Park, KS "Military gamers are really downhearted because they are not seeing as many new war games." --Jim Beers, The Compleat Strategist Philadelphia, PA "I would have thought that the sheer numbers of modern board games such as Third World War, Nato, and such would have saturated the market for those type of games. But Sixth Fleet had been really hot, so perhaps there's room for growth there." --Dennis Largesse The Little Soldier, Alexandria, VA 'Victory Games' new releases have picked up customer interest on all board games." --Thom Walla Hobby Town Lincoln, NEB WarGames 12 Sixth Fleet (Victory Games Inc.) 7 Purple Heart (Victory Games Inc.) 6 Pax Britannica (Victory Games Inc.) 5 Axis and Allies (Milton Bradley Co.) 4 Squad Leader (The Avalon Hill Game 4 Firepower (The Avalon Hill Game Co) 4 Conquest of the Empire (Milton Bradley Co.) 3 East Wind Rain (Worldwide Wargamers) 2 Ambush! (Victory Games Inc.) 2 Star Fleet Battles (Task Force Games) 2 Third World War (Game Designed Workshop) War Game Miniatures 5 Napoleonics, 15mm (Minifigs) 2 Colonials, 25mm (Ral Partha) 2 Tricorne, 15mm (Minifigs) 2 Micro Armour tanks 1:285 scale (GHQ) "Tbere's a lot less interest in trivia. We're selling more and more in war, science fiction, and fantasy games." Kean Lange Endgames Portland, OR Adult Games 12 Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective (Sleuth Publications) 6 Trivial Pursuit Genus II (Selchow & Righter) 5 221 B Baker Street (John N. Hanson Co. Inc.) 4 superstar wrestling (super star Game CO.) 2 Sexual Trivia (Baron-Scott Publications) 2 Rail Baron (The Avalon Hill Game Co.) 2 Stratomatic Baseball (Stratomatic Came CO 2 Junta (West End Games) "Dinner party mystery games are selling real well." -- Stepbanie Kaebler, Game Alot, Santa Cruz, CA "Pax Britannica and Purple Heart are two brand new games that are selling like hot cakes." --Cindy Friedman The Gamekeeper Goletha, CA Back to Table of Contents -- Game News #4 To Game News List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 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