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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!

Ooh, good pool.

Shadowrun on SNES is such an awesome action-RPG. I'm not even sure how they made this game work as well as it did on a console in 1993, but there you have it. Free choice, dialogue trees, character upgrading, real-time cursor shooting, hiring mercs. Awesome game. Great music, too.

Portal, as awesome a game as it is, comes in 2nd to Shadowrun.

Robotrek is a charming little pre-Pokemon Pokemon game where you deploy your cute little customizable robos to do battle for you. Enix!

Pool so good that I couldn't even vote for Elite Beat Agents, but that's my 4th pick for sure.