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Welcome to the second round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the sequence 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... realistically in early 2021.

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!

Little Samson is one of those games that came out LATE on NES—look at this, a year later than A Link to the Past on SNES! And it shows. It really squeezes every bit of juice out of that old hardware that it possibly could.

Man Ninja Gaiden is such a good game. One of only a handful of perfect NES games. Full votes from me for that.

Dead Rising still remains the best in the series. It really nailed the modern-arcadey experience for a game.

Dead Rising and OlliOlli2 both get full votes from me. I like other games in this pool, but I like those two on another level. DR1 is a great, replayable weekend game, and OlliOlli2 is a perfect 2D Tony Hawk platformer. Love 'em both.

Damn, I'm going to need to go back to DR sometime. Getting some real respect in here and it's exactly the kind of game a retired old casual gamer like me could find himself getting into at the moment.