It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

* 1982, Origins Awards, Best Role Playing Game

Fudge has been nominated for an Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Game System for the Deryni Role-Playing Game.

INWO won the Origins Award for Best Card Game in 1997.

* Origins Game Fair, a game convention

* Origins Game Fair, an annual board game event in Columbus Ohio

* Origins Award, presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair

* Origins Game Fair

In 1998, Kill Doctor Lucky won the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 1997.

Ars Magica 5th edition won the Origins Award for Best Role Playing Game of 2004.

The " Black Box " won the Origins Award in 1991 for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1990.

In 1995, Planescape won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1994.

World Championships were held each year at the Origins Game Fair.

Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as the first PC God game .< ref >< BR /> In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in American video game magazine Video Games & Computer Entertainment.

Wizards debuted Magic in July 1993 at the Origins Game Fair in Dallas.

After the success of Magic, Wizards published RoboRally in 1994, and it soon won the 1994 Origins Awards for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board Game and Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game.

The new edition of the D & D game won the 2000 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game.

In 1995, SimCity 2000 won " Best Military or Strategy Computer Game " Origins Award.

The 2002 title won the Origins Award for Best Historical Board Game of 2002.

Origins Game Fair is one of North America's most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to Gen Con.

Origins Game Fair was formerly known as the Origins International Game Expo.

Zocchi is a well-known figure at gaming conventions like Gen Con and Origins Game Fair, where he demonstrates the various inconsistencies in most mass-produced gaming dice.

At the Origins Game Fair in 2002 he was inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame.

An event held at the Origins Game Fair, and possibly other Gaming conventions, is the Knights Of The Dinner Table live reading.

A boxed set of the game was released by Looney Labs at the 2003 Origins Game Fair but is now out of print.

Dragon * Con has hosted the 1990 Origins Game Fair and the 1995 North American Science Fiction Convention ( NASFiC ).

They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so ( for example ) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.

The Origins Awards were originally presented at the Origins Game Fair in five categories: Best Professional Game, Best Amateur Game, Best Professional Magazine, Best Amateur Magazine and Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.

Norman Cantor recognized three books as most important to Strayer's legacy: Feudalism ( 1965 ), which summarized three decades of his research and thinking on the topic ; On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State ( 1970 ), in which he shows the relevance of medieval historical institutions to modern governmental institutions ; and The Reign of Philip the Fair ( 1980 ), representing over 30 years of archival research and the most comprehensive work on the topic in any language-other than Jean Favier's Philippe le Bel ( 1978 ).

Dan Smith at Origins Game Fair | Origins in 2002

It is currently the biggest gaming convention for board gaming, role-playing games, etc., in the world, followed by Gen Con Indy in Indianapolis, Indiana and Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio.

Prior to 2000, the awards were given at the Origins Game Fair, and Charles Roberts Awards prior to 1987 are also considered to be Origins Awards.

Gary Gygax thought it would be a good idea to introduce science fiction / science fantasy concepts to D & D players through the use of a tournament scenario at the 1976 Origins II gaming convention in Baltimore, Maryland.

Tomb of Horrors was written by Gary Gygax for official D & D tournament play at the 1975 Origins 1 convention.

Queen of the Demonweb Pits was the tournament dungeon for the Origins ' 79 game convention.

The magazine was a three time Origins Award winner, and is also notable for featuring the first appearance of the long-running RPG comic strip, Knights of the Dinner Table.

* Silent Hill: Origins, the fifth installment of the Silent Hill survival horror series and prequel to the original 1999 game

* Dragon Age: Origins, a 2009 role-playing video game and first installment of the Dragon Age series

The Shadowrun role-playing game, various expansions, and a Shadowrun collectible card game have won Origins Awards.

* In X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game, the Sentinel Mark I is one of the major bosses of the game.

The game won the Charles S. Roberts Award ( Origins Award ) for Best Science Fiction Boardgame of 1981

In 2009, during a scene of the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, " Springfield, Ohio " is listed in the scene caption as the location of a carnival where Victor Creed / Sabretooth finds Chris Bradley / Bolt working as a game booth attendant.

In 1994, Magic won both the Mensa Top Five mind games award and the Origins Awards for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board game of 1993 and Best Graphic Presentation of a Board game of 1993.

Origins started in 1975 with a gathering of game players in Baltimore, Maryland.

In a nod to Baltimore's position as the home of Avalon Hill and the birthplace of the commercial wargame hobby, Don Greenwood, a game designer with Avalon Hill and founder of the convention, suggested calling the show " Origins ".

The survival horror video game Silent Hill: Origins contains a segment in which the protagonist must solve puzzles within the " Artaud Theatre ", which is in the town of Silent Hill.

This trend is re-emerging in modern gaming as an incentive to both buy games and discourage their resale ; some games like Forza Motorsport 3 and Dragon Age: Origins provide bonus in-game material that will only be given if one buys the game new.

A monster from the 2007 video game Silent Hill: Origins is named after and inspired by Caliban.

Some of the games which were later sold separately include Focus, Property and Origins of World War I ; Robert Abbott expanded his game Crossings, published here, into the more-refined title Epaminondas.

* Origins of World War I, a historical pencil-and-paper game by Jim Dunnigan which teaches players history