Arkie Awards
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The cover of the first issue of Electronic Games (Winter 1981)
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| Frequency | Monthly |
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| Publisher | 1st run: Reese Publishing Company, Inc. Katz Kunkel Worley Inc. |
| Founder | Bill Kunkel, Arnie Katz, Joyce Worley |
| First issue | 1st run: Winter 1981 2nd run: October 1992 |
| Final issue | 1st run: August 1985 2nd run: January 1997 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0730-6687 |
Electronic Games was the first dedicated video game magazine published in the United States and ran from October 1981 to 1997 under different titles. It was co-founded by Bill Kunkel, Joyce Worley, and Arnie Katz, and is unrelated to the subsequent Electronic Gaming Monthly.
The magazine has its origins in “Arcade Alley”, a regular column in Video magazine that began in 1978 and was the first dedicated to video games. The column was written by Bill Kunkel along with Arnie Katz and Joyce Worley, before they went on to found Electronic Games magazine. The magazine was active from 1981, during the golden age of arcade video games and the second generation of consoles, up until 1985, following the North American video game industry crash. The magazine was briefly revived during the 16-bit era in the early 1990s, but eventually ended in 1995, at which point it was renamed to Fusion.
The magazine is notable for holding the first Game of the Year Award ceremony, called the Arcade Awards, or Arkie Awards. The following games are the winners of the magazine's annual Arcade Awards. The awards for each year took place in the January of the following year. No single game was allowed to win more than one award in the same year.
According to the Winter 1981 issue of Electronic Games, the 1980 Arcade Awards (i.e., the first set of "Arkies") were announced in February 1980 and covered all hardware and software produced prior to January 1, 1980.
The 1981 edition of the awards reflects accomplishments during the 12 months of the preceding year.
The third annual Arcade Awards were sponsored jointly by Video and Electronic Games and honored outstanding achievements in the field of video games of the year 1981. The 1982 Arcade Awards were published in the March 1982 issue of Electronic Games.
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