1st Annual Interactive Achievement Awards

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1st Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
DateMay 28, 1998 (1998-05-28)
Venue Georgia World Congress Center
Country Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Highlights
Most awards GoldenEye 007 (4)
Most nominations
Interactive Title of the Year GoldenEye 007
Hall of Fame Shigeru Miyamoto
D.I.C.E. Awards ·  2nd  

The 1st Annual Interactive Achievement Awards was the 1st edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards, an annual awards event that honored the best games in the video game industry during 1997 and the first three months of 1998. The awards were arranged by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and were held on the first day of E3 1998 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. There was not an official host of the award ceremony. [1] [2] All titles eligible for nomination were publicly release in North America between January 1, 1997 and March 31, 1998. [3]

Contents

Final Fantasy VII , GoldenEye 007 , and Riven: The Sequel to Myst were tied for receiving the most nominations. GoldenEye 007 took home the most awards, including "Interactive Title of the Year". Electronic Arts received the most nominations and had the most nominated games. Electronic Arts also tied with Broderbund for having the most awarded games. Rare and Nintendo won the most awards, with Rare as the developer and Nintendo as the publisher. There was a tie between Age of Empires and StarCraft for "PC Strategy Game of the Year". Carmen Sandiego had two award-winning titles for the PC awards "Edutainment" and "Skills Building" with Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? and Carmen Sandiego Word Detective , respectively. There was a category for "Arcade Game of the Year" in the initial category listing, but there weren't any finalists named for the category. [4] This would be the only year "Interactive Title of the Year" was offered, and would be renamed "Game of the Year" going forward.

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of several of Nintendo franchises including Donkey Kong , Mario , The Legend of Zelda , Metroid , F-Zero , and Star Fox , was the first inductee of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.

Winners and Nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). [5] [6] [7] [2]

Craft Awards

Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics
Outstanding Achievement in Sound and Music

Content Awards

Console

Console Game of the Year [a]

Personal Computer

Computer Entertainment Title of the Year [b]
PC Creativity Title of the Year
PC Edutainment Title of the Year
PC Skills Building Title of the Year

Online

Online Entertainment Site of the Year
Online News/Information Site of the Year
  • CNN Online
    • ABC News Online
    • Discovery Channel Online
    • ESPN Sportszone
    • GameSpot
    • The Wall Street Journal Online
    • The Washington Post Online

Hall of Fame Award

Multiple nominations and awards

Multiple Nominations

Any game that was nominated for a console genre award was also a nominee for "Console Game of the Year". The same can be applied to nominees for personal computer awards and "Computer Entertainment Title of the Year".

Multiple Awards

Games that received multiple awards
AwardsGame
4 GoldenEye 007
2 Final Fantasy VII
PaRappa the Rapper
StarCraft

Notes

  1. All finalists for console awards are finalists for Console Game of the Year.
  2. All finalists for personal computer awards are finalists for Computer Entertainment Title of the Year.
  3. Ties between finalists.
  4. Only listing games that were neither nominated for a console nor personal computer award.
  5. Only listing companies that did not receive a nomination for a console or personal computer award.

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The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards. This is "awarded to a game that embodies the independent spirit of game creation, representing a higher degree of risk tolerance and advances our media with innovative gameplay and experiences". All active creative/technical, business, and affiliate members of the Academy are qualified to vote for this category.

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards. The award "celebrates the highest level of technical achievement through the combined attention to gameplay engineering and visual engineering. Elements honored include but are not limited to artificial intelligence, physics, engine mechanics, and visual rendering". Creative/technical Academy members with expertise as an artist, animator or programmer are qualified to vote for this award.

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