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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!

Strong bracket.

I really like Metroid Prime Pinball and I wish I knew where my cart was. It was in a carrying case with two or three other games that I think may be lost for good but that I'm crossing my fingers is maybe tucked away in my parents' basement somewhere. Maybe I'll check next time I'm home.

I went with Qbert (despite being so hard it’s quite good), Curse of Monkey Island, and Ducktales. The latter I didn’t play until quite recently and was surprised how much I liked it.

Ducktales is one of the best licensed games of all time.

DuckTales is ridiculously good. Take away the licence and you still have a classic Capcom NES platformer with great NES Capcom music. I like that it's also relatively short. We used to session-play it back in the day, which led to a nice sense of familiarity.

I had to give my top vote to Romance of the Three Kingdoms X though. X is the culmination of the RTK RPG sub-series. I might slightly prefer VIII in that regard, and I prefer all of the strategy games, but this is still great.

Final vote to QBert, which I actually played on my neighbour's PC rather than in the arcade, but I love the concept and the characters.