Whereas the Gerlits-Nagy γ property is strictly weaker than the Galvin-Miller strong γ property, the corresponding strong notions for the Menger, Hurewicz, Rothberger, Gerlits-Nagy (∗), Arkhangel’skǐi and Sakai properties are equivalent to the original ones. We give new game theoretic characterizations for most of these properties, solve a related problem of Kočinac and Scheepers, and answer a ...