FAQ

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You vote by "joining" a game. Think of every game listed on the site as a mini-fanclub. If you join a game, you just voted for that game.

Of course. Who can choose just one?! To make it easier to find a game you want to vote for, click "Games." You'll see something like the window pictured below, where you can search for a game by title.

Yes! Sign in and go to "My Page." Hit the "Settings" link under your name on the right. From there, hit "Email." Here you will be able to set what email notices you receive from the site.

Yes! We believe in the social aspect of games and it is our hope that the individual members of this site become an active and thriving community of people with that and other common interests. Once the content of the book is decided and it goes to print, the focus of the site will shift and we will become a collection of individual fan clubs within the broader community of game lovers.

They'll begin as mini-fanclubs, but we believe they will grow! Within a game group there are discussion forums and a comment wall, but there's also room for expansion. To start, the groups are entirely driven by the community, because the editors here do not have time to facilitate individual groups. We will be encouraging the publishers of each game to become involved with the site and if it grows in membership like we hope, we will give administrative access to individual game groups to any publisher or inventor who wishes to have it. Of course we'll have guidelines, but imagine if these groups were treated as fan sites that offered free games, ran contests, and encouraged members to invite their friends. The game groups would become thriving communities within the broader community of 101greatgames.com.

The subtitle of the book may be "games you simply must play before you die." If the book is a checklist for the average consumer discovering some of these games for the first time, we thought that a "Swap Meet" section where players can buy/sell/trade games with one another would be neat. Already have a game on the list and want to try another one? Trade it in for a game you haven't tried. That's just one idea and we're open to yours.

Many brand managers of games are on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites trying to gather, influence and cater to fans of their games. Why not send them here to vote and hang out? We see this site as a potential gathering place for game lovers. Tim will be promoting the book and the site on radio stations and in articles nationally, which will bring even more people here. His first two books, Timeless Toys and WHAM-O Super-Book have over 100,000 copies in print.

All games need to be approved before they are added. We reserve the right to reject any game if it does not meet the rules listed at the bottom of the main page. The site is growing fast, so please give us a few days to approve a newly added game.

We plan to offer ad space in the future if membership grows to the point where it makes sense.