Abstract We consider a real-valued function f defined on the set of infinite branches X countably branching pruned tree T . The is said to be limsup if there $u \colon \to \mathbb {R}$ such that $f(x) = \limsup _{t \infty } u(x_{0},\dots ,x_{t})$ for each $x \in X$ study game characterization functions, as well novel functions Baire class 1.