FLASHBACK 40

Happy Holidays, everyone! We have reached the December issue, which means we get to look back on the Buyer’s Guide, which for many years was Games's largest annual feature. This highly anticipated and everevolving addition to the December issues increased the page count of the magazine by 20 percent and kept the editors busy year-round, playtesting and reviewing hundreds of games, and accurately predicting what would be popular in the following year.

40 YEARS AGO: NOVEM BER/DECEMBER 1980

As 1980 came to an end, Games published its November/December issue. Despite the lack of a festive cover (it would still be a few years before Games had a Christmas cover puzzle), this issue was notable because it delivered the original installment of The Games 100, the first of many pieces that would eventually make up