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Round 1: K is for Kong, Donkey Kong

You can vote for 0-8 games in this poll. Pick as many or as few as you like, but vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The #1 ranked game at the end of the week will move on to Round 2.

1988 - Dragon Warrior III - NES
1995 - Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - PC
1996 - Diablo - PC
1999 - Front Mission 3 - PS1
2001 - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages - GBC
2004 - River City Ransom EX - GBA
2005 - Mario Kart DS - DS
2010 - Nimbus - PC
2015 - JumpJet Rex - PC

You are encouraged to discuss your choices and your reasons for selecting the games you did.

Dragon Warrior III is one of the best early RPGs at a time when they were really starting to hit their stride and get quite creative and complex on consoles. I remember when I first got to [spoiler!!!] and it knocked my socks off. Great game.

I also have to toss a vote at Warcraft II for being the only RTS game I can tolerate. It's actually a really nice "simple" RTS from before the days when they started getting over-the-top with high-speed, high-intensity competitive stuff. Warcraft II scenarios felt like a chunk of a world that you could just live in, develop your area, hone your strategic focus, and then expand and advance as you gradually encounter challenges. When I moved on to StarCraft and Warcraft III, I felt it was too much about winning with your initial opening gambits—too much intensity too soon.

Warcraft 2 along with Red Alert was my childhood.
Nuff said.

Mario Kart DS. One of the best Mario Kart games, had great online fun with this one.

Warcraft II was the beginning and end of my RTS gaming. I still have a soft spot for the (inferior) original, but War2, along with Doom 2 stole countless hours from me and brought me into modern online play.

Now I feel bad for not having cast a vote for Front Mission 3 and River City Ransom DX (the latter because I fear the excellent NES entry didn't even make it into this contest at all).

Mario Kart DS is probably the clear winner here, but...

There are other people who appreciate/have heard of Nimbus???

Forscyvus wrote: There are other people who appreciate/have heard of Nimbus???

This is the kind of post that makes nominating 160 games worth it.

Mario Kart DS wins this poll and advances into round 2.