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Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round of 512!

Each game is seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools. Every game in the Upper Bracket has defeated multiple other games in 1-on-1 polls to get to this point. These are still the best of the best.

Polls are updated weekly, typically on Sunday or Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!

HOW TO VOTE

This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!

Gate of Thunder is a feast for the eyes, feels great to play, and has a rockin' soundtrack. As good as it gets for the genre in my limited experience with it.

Gate of Thunder is excellent and I would happily vote for it, but I think Oregon Trail still needs kudos here as a basic early attempt at a resource-management strategy adventure game that isn't about nation states engaged in warfare.

The Oregon Trail is one of the most influential and important games in history. This original is actually the text version - the adaptation most of us remember came out in 1985 - but multiple generations of kids, in part because of the seemingly unkillable nature of the Apple IIe in American schools, have played this game. Even kids who never had a console or home computer played this. Given that, I think it;'s reasonable to suggest that, at least from 1985 - the early 2000s, as many kids played this as Mario or Sonic, maybe more.