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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 Abodox here for me. An extremely hard but fun NES shooter. I’ll never forget watching a video in awe of someone trying to do a no death run. He or she got all the way to the last boss then got hit lol. I never could beat this and I probably won’t unless maybe if it gets ported to something I have.

Punch Out and Contra 4 both get full marks for being modern entries in a genre that somehow manage to live up to the lofty examples of their originals!

Punch-Out Wii was a great game, and it could've easily failed in that aspect. Would love to see Next Level make another down the line. Also gave some marks to Crash Bandicoot. The first two GBA games were terrific for what they were. Huge Adventure was the safer of the two in design, but I really liked it. Deserves to be recognized.