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===AA Games Accolades===
Initially only the best rated game of the month earned an ''AA Mastergame'' accolade, but from issue 57 this was changed to all games that received a 90% or higher rating. Games receiving 80–90% were awarded an ''AA Rave''. Publishers of CPC games such as [[Activision]], [[Ocean Software|Ocean]] and [[Infogrames]] proudly mounted these awards on their packaging to promote their games to potential customers. The first game to receive a 'Mastergame' award was [[Krome Studios Melbourne|Melbourne House]]'s ''[[The Way of the Exploding Fist]]'', gaining an impressive 94% AA Rating. Issue 38 was the first issue not to award any game the Mastergame accolade. Apparently there were no games worthy of the award that month. The lowest rated Mastergame was ''[[Target Renegade]]'', from [[Imagine Software]], receiving an 86% overall rating. Quite why it was awarded a Mastergame was not explained and remains a mystery.

''[[Laser Squad]]'', by Blade Software, which was mentioned many times as being an ''AA'' staff favourite, was awarded the Mastergame accolade, in AA49, with a 91% rating. March 1990 and the mysterious lost Mastergame that would be ''[[Chase HQ]]''. The [[Ocean Software|Ocean]] [[arcade game]] conversion received a score of 90%, coupled with being the highest rated game this issue. This would normally justify the Mastergame accolade, however the game only got an AA Rave accolade and no explanation or corrections were made since. June 1990 was the first issue to award the Mastergame accolade to more than one game; ''[[E-Motion]]'' by [[U.S. Gold|US Gold]] and ''[[Turrican]]'' by [[Rainbow Arts]] received ratings of 92% and 90% respectively. November 1990 and ''[[Rick Dangerous 2]]'' received the highest rating so far. The MicroStyle game gained a MasterGame award and an AA Rating of 97%.

[[Psygnosis]]' ''[[Lemmings (video game)|Lemmings]]'' and [[Ocean Software|Ocean]]'s ''[[The Addams Family (video game)|The Addams Family]]'' were the last games to receive a Mastergame accolade in July 1992's AA82; receiving 97% and 90% respectively. Following issues dispensed with AA Rave and Mastergame accolades. ''[[Lemmings (video game)|Lemmings]]'' joins ''[[Rick Dangerous 2]]'' as gaining the highest ''AA'' rating given during its publication. March 1993's issue 90 featured the first highest rated game not to receive an AA accolade. ''[[Nigel Mansell]]''’s World Championship received an overall rating of 93%, but no accolade of either Rave or Mastergame. The long standing AA signature accolade had been discarded.