Best Humor (Erins)

Browse the Erins by year:

• 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009

Or by award categories:

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• Best Male/Female Sex Scene | Best Lesbian Sex Scene | Best Threesome/Orgy | Best Sex Overall
• Best Writing | Best Technical Implementation | Best Use of Multimedia | Best Atmosphere | Best Puzzles | Best Humor | Best Game
• Badman Memorial Award | Other Erins awards

Awarded to the funniest game of the year. (That is, the most amusing, not the most strange.)

Best Humor

2002

Note: A "first age game" was written prior to 2000; a "new age game" is one written on or after 2000.

• Best Humour in a First Age Game: Stiffy Makane: Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Dastardly Coward and Drunken Bastard; 1997; Z-code).
  • Honourable Mention: An Afternoon Visit (Mkj; 1998; AGT).
• Best Humour in a New Age Game: Blow Job Drifter (Big Al; 1996; Z-code).
  • Runner Up: Sam Shooter: Graduation Day (One-Eyed Jack; 2002; TADS 2).
  • Honourable Mention: Dexter Dixon: In Search of the Prussian Pussy (A. Bomire; 2002; TADS 2).

2003

• Best Humour: Sam Shooter III: Come In Sixty Seconds (One-Eyed Jack; TADS 2).
  • 2nd place: Fairytails Remixed (Psimage; ADRIFT).
  • 3rd place: Plan 69 (Cauldron; ADRIFT).

2004

• Best Humor: Sam Shooter IV: Children of the Damned (One-Eyed Jack; TADS 2).
  • 2nd place: The Backlot (A. Bomire; TADS 2).
  • 3rd place: Santa's Little Helper (A. Bomire; TADS 2).
  • 4th place: British Fox and the Celebrity Abductions (Lucilla Frost; ADRIFT).
  • 5th place: Crossworlds Part 1 - Normville and Crossworlds Part 2 - The Flower Opens (BBBen; ADRIFT 3.9).

2005

• Best Humor: Crossworlds Part 3: The Final Far Far Away Frontier (BBBen; Jan-2005; ADRIFT 3.9).
  • 2nd place: Ideal Pacific Coast University (NewKid; 22-Apr-2005; TADS 3).
  • 3rd place: Crawler's Delight (A.Troll; 14-Jul-2005; ADRIFT).
  • 4th place: Fever Cabin (GoddoG; 27-Sep-2005; TADS 2).
  • 5th place: The Reunion (Moriarty; 2004; TADS 3).

2006

• Best Humour: To Cage a Magpie (Lucilla Frost; TADS 2).
  • 2nd place: Gifts of Phallius 1: The Baron's Plot (GoblinBoy; TADS 2).
  • nominated: Paradise Hotel (Blue Meanie; ADRIFT 4).
  • nominated: Gifts of Phallius 2: The Key to Eternity (GoblinBoy; TADS 2).
  • nominated: The Clairvoyant (Priapus Rex; ADRIFT 3.9).

2007

• Best Humor: A Goblin's Life (Burnout and BBBen; ADRIFT 3.9).
  • 2nd place: The Last Hurrah! (Priapus Rex; ADRIFT 3.9).
  • 3rd place: Plains of Fantasy (Paul Swift; ADRIFT 3.9).

Note: There was no Erins 2008.

2009

• Funniest Game: The Mechano-Menace (A. Bomire; 2009; TADS 2).
  • 2nd place: Last Week Before The Wedding (Raul; 2009; ADRIFT 4).
  • 3rd place: Bad Day to be a Princess (oneevilbob; 2008; TADS 3).