There's a reason I didn't include any GameCube titles this time.
So you admit the only way to keep GameCube and/or N64 games from winning the poll is to not put them in the options?
The demographics of the site are skewed towards people who first got into gaming during the N64/PSX generation (or even the GCN/PS2/Xbox gen.). You're not going to get very much support for NES or SNES games (not to mention TG-16 or NEOGEO) unless they're
huge games that the majority of us have all played before--the Marios, Metroids, Zeldas, etc.
vudu, your logic is... illogical. Why would you want to vote for the game that's already winning, just because it's already winning?
That's not what I meant. Perhaps my post was poorly worded. Let's use an example to clear things up. I'm going to simplify things to make it easier to explain.
Suppose you have 10 people who are going to vote for their choice of 3 games--Super Mario Bros 3, Super Metroid, and Ninja Spirit. 5 of those people have no interest in playing (or hearing about) SMB3 (played it to death, hate Mario, whatever reason). The other 5 have no interest in Super Metroid. Most of these people don't have any prior experience with Ninja Spirit--they might be open to it, but they don't know enough about it to commit.
If votes can't be changed (and can't be viewed until after voting) the first group is going to all vote for Super Metroid and the second group is all going to vote for SMB3. No one is going to vote for Ninja Spirit. Why? Because group A wants to make sure that SMB3 doesn't win and group B wants to make sure Super Metroid doesn't win. The best chance of each group getting their way is to select the game they feel has the best chance of beating the game they don't want.
The result is RetroActive will be stuck playing all the big games that have already been played numerous times in the past and discussing all the big games that have already discussed to death on the Internet. I didn't mean you'll be playing the same game every week--I meant every week you'll play a game that you most likely played before.
The only way you'll be able to avoid this is to influence the results by selecting which games are up for vote. Personally, I'd prefer if you just selected which game will be played every week instead of the current method.