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The 1998 Charles S. Roberts Awards were presented at Origins '99 in Columbus, Ohio.

Best Pre-World War II Board Game
Caesar: Conquest of Gaul (GMT Games)
&For The People (TAHGC)
Saratoga 1777 (GMT Games)
Summer Storm (Clash of Arms)
This Hallowed Ground (Xeno Games)

Best World War II Board Game
Barbarossa: Army Group Center (GMT Games)
Bitter Woods (TAHGC)
&Invasion: Sicily (GMT Games)
Victory: Blocks of War (Columbia Games)
War Without Mercy (Clash of Arms)

Best Pre-Twentieth Century Computer Wargame
Battleground Series: Chickamauga (Talonsoft)
&Great Battles of History, Collector's edition (I-Magic)

Best Twentieth Century Computer Wargame
Close Combat III: The Russian Front (Microsoft)
The Operational Art of War, Volume One (Talonsoft)
&West Front (Talonsoft)

Best Wargaming Graphics
Barbarossa: Army Group Center (GMT Games)
Caesar: Conquest of Gaul (GMT Games)
&Saratoga 1777 (GMT Games)
Summer Storm (Clash of Arms)
This Hallowed Ground (The Gamers)

Best Professional Game Magazine
C3i Magazine (GMT Games/RBM Studio)
Command Magazine (XTR, Inc.)
Paper Wars (Omega Games)
Operations (The Gamers)
&Strategy & Tactics (Decision Games)

Best Amateur Game Magazine
&Berg's Review of Games (BROG; Richard Berg)
The Boardgamer
Der Musketier (Germany)
Line of Departure
Perfidious Albion (UK)

Best Game Review or Analysis Article
&Home Before the Leaves Fall (by Rick Lechowich, Fire & Movement #116)

Best Historical / Opinion / Variant / Scenario / Interview Article
&The Meuse-Argonne: America's Last Offensive of the Great War (by John Desch, Command magazine Issue #51)

James F. Dunnigan Award for Playability & Design
Mark Herman

Hasbro Inc. -- which parlays mainstream brands such as Monopoly and G.I. Joe into global revenues exceeding $3 billion -- finalized its $6 million purchase of Avalon Hill's intellectual properties, trademarks and inventories on Oct. 27. (1998). Hasbro hired two former Avalon Hill employees to aid its internal development teams. Bill Levay went on to become an Executive producer for Hasbro Interactive (later Infogrames).