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Welcome to the first round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the set generator at Random.org. There's no seeding, no ranking, and no preference or prioritization.

The results of the pools will determine how each game stacks up in the elimination rounds, coming later this year.

HOW TO VOTE

Voting is ranked, but it's not super intuitive, so listen up.

• You have 6 total votes to distribute.
• You can only select up to 3 options.
• You can only give each option up to 3 votes.
• NOTE: The number you pick is not the RANK of your choice (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd), but the number of VOTES you're giving it.
• The more votes (bigger numbers) a game gets, the better for that game.

EXAMPLES

• You could pick three games and order them by giving them 3, 2, and 1 votes.
• If you like three games equally, you could give them 2, 2, and 2 votes.
• If you only like two games, you could give them 3 and 3 votes (or 3 and 2, etc.).

This gives you a lot of granularity for how you assign your votes and thereby a lot of influence over which games can do well. Use your power wisely!

If you have questions, ask before voting!

Just Rastan for me here. A wicked hard but gorgeous and fun classic arcade game.

Big votes for Portal 2, for being a well-written follow-up to a brilliant original game that actually somehow lives us to it.

Also voted for Kuru Kuru Kururin on GBA. Has anyone else played this game? It wasn't released in North America, but it did come out in Europe, and thankfully the GBA is region-free. It's a weird... puzzle... platformer? Where you pilot a spinning line ship through corridors. It's basically slow Flywrench? Surprisingly good game.

EDIT: lmao apparently they played this at AGDQ last week:

3 votes for Panzer Dragoon, 2 votes for Portal 2, 1 vote for Donkey Kong Jr..

Panzer Dragoon is a better-executed Starfox 64 if you ask me, and Portal 2 is just more Portal. Can't go wrong there. My memories of Donkey Kong Jr. are actually from the NES version (via Virtual Console), but it was one of my first VC games, and I fondly recall how cool I thought the whole concept of Virtual Console was and how much fun I had mastering its short, 4 level loop. It's a small piece of the puzzle that ultimately led me to the Virtual Console forums, and the rest is history.

Kong Wen wrote: ↑27 Jan 2020 15:20 Also voted for Kuru Kuru Kururin on GBA. Has anyone else played this game? It wasn't released in North America, but it did come out in Europe, and thankfully the GBA is region-free. It's a weird... puzzle... platformer? Where you pilot a spinning line ship through corridors. It's basically slow Flywrench? Surprisingly good game.

I haven't, but I'm interested! Any comparison to Flywrench is a major plus in my opinion.

Claytone wrote: ↑27 Jan 2020 16:46

Kong Wen wrote: ↑27 Jan 2020 15:20 Also voted for Kuru Kuru Kururin on GBA. Has anyone else played this game? It wasn't released in North America, but it did come out in Europe, and thankfully the GBA is region-free. It's a weird... puzzle... platformer? Where you pilot a spinning line ship through corridors. It's basically slow Flywrench? Surprisingly good game.

I haven't, but I'm interested! Any comparison to Flywrench is a major plus in my opinion.

I mean, it doesn't have the speed, which is what makes Flywrench feel like a platformer. It's more like... what actually is this genre where you're piloting some kind of spinning/flapping line through restricted geometry towards gates/goals? Kuruwrenchlike?