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3pm UK time Sunday 8th March, we'll find out the winner of this poll, which may well be of a 3D giant-insect battle variety. Or it could be something else, I guess the proportional votes could bring a surprise?

It's my 14-day-long poll to discover the best ZX Spectrum game by Quicksilva!

3D Strategy


Ant Attack


Aquaplane


Astro Blaster


Battlezone


Blood 'n' Guts


Bugaboo The Flea


Captain Kelly


Chess Player, The


Death Wake


DefCom


Dragonsbane


Elevator Action


Eric Bristow's Pro-Darts


Fantastic Voyage


Gatecrasher


Glass


Glider Rider


Gridrunner


Hocus Focus


Laser Zone


Mastermind


Max Headroom


Meteor Storm


Mighty Magus


Mined-Out


Pac-Land


Pontoon


Power Pyramids


Red Scorpion


Rupert And The Toymaker's Party


Sabotage


Schizofrenia


Sector 90


Smuggler's Cove


Snowman, The


Space Intruders


Strontium: The Killing


Tantalus


Thompson Twins Adventure, The


Time-Gate


Traxx


Tube, The


Xadom


Yabba Dabba Doo!


Zombie Zombie

I've given Mined Out an early lead although I'm sure it won't be long before it's overtaken by some giant ants.

1. Mined Out
2. Elevator Action
3 Mighty Magus

I could never get along with Ant Attack's controls and as entertaining as Bugaboo is, it's just a bit too easy for my liking.

Wait, what Gridrunner is here ? I asked a while back why it wasn't on the Llamasoft list. Well that's a clear number one for me, it's great fun

Followed by Elevator Action and then Time Gates

Turtle_Quality wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 3:41 pm Wait, what Gridrunner is here ? I asked a while back why it wasn't on the Llamasoft list. Well that's a clear number one for me, it's great fun

I go by the appropriate brand of the original publisher, never the developer or development team (unless that IS the original publisher brand of course).

1. Bugaboo the Flea
2. Elevator Action
3. Mined Out

I'm another who couldn't get on with Ant Attack's controls

1- Fantastic Voyage, played it a lot back in the day!
2- Ant Attack
3- Bugaboo the Flea

By the way, [mention]PeteProdge[/mention] , shouldn't be Blood 'n Guts and Fantastic Voyage be considered as only one game?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:20 am By the way, @PeteProdge , shouldn't be Blood 'n Guts and Fantastic Voyage be considered as only one game?

I hadn't noticed that until now, having never played either.

That's the kind of thing I like to have ironed out in the discussion phase before the voting.

1. Ant Attack
2. Bugaboo
3. Glass

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:14 am

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:20 am By the way, @PeteProdge , shouldn't be Blood 'n Guts and Fantastic Voyage be considered as only one game?

I hadn't noticed that until now, having never played either.

That's the kind of thing I like to have ironed out in the discussion phase before the voting.

I think I wrote about this in the discussion thread. Anyway, the solution is simple: add votes of both options.

A remember this old, wise meme:

Bugaboo
Tantalus
Space Intruders

A Mediocre label but with a few standouts...

1. Fantastic Voyage
2. Ant Attack
3. Dragonsbane

1 - Fantastic Voyage
2 - Gatecrasher
3 - Aquaplane

There's a good amount of good stuff here, I don't know exactly what to prioritize

Absolutely no surprise to see Ant Attack steam this poll, with 15 votes. It's the one I thought would dominate.

The nearest to it? Just 4 votes, going to Bugaboo The Flea.

Joint third place, 3 votes each: Fantastic Voyage; Glider Rider and Time-Gate.

Joint fourth place, 2 votes each: Aquaplane and Elevator Action.

Joint fifth place, 1 vote each: Blood 'n' Guts; Gridrunner; Max Headroom; Mined-Out; Strontium: The Killing and Zombie Zombie.

It's a markedly different story on the proportional votes. Ant Attack isn't top there, the joint top place is split between Bugaboo The Flea and Fantastic Voyage. Ant Attack is second...

Bugaboo The Flea 9
Fantastic Voyage 9
Ant Attack 7
Elevator Action 4
Mined-Out 4
Gatecrasher 2
Tantalus 2
Aquaplane 1
Dragonsbane 1
Glass 1
Mighty Magus 1
Space Intruders 1

Also, the experiment in taking the poll to 14 days. it didn't really add on that many votes. I'm fairly certain we hit 36 votes a week ago, and only two more were cast since then, so I'm taking the polls back to a 7 day length. It's more than adequate for voting.

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:49 am Also, the experiment in taking the poll to 14 days. it didn't really add on that many votes. I'm fairly certain we hit 36 votes a week ago, and only two more were cast since then, so I'm taking the polls back to a 7 day length. It's more than adequate for voting.

Yet again i don't get the logic behind that. As "didn't really add that many" does mean it DID add some - those being now named unimportant and "inadequate" just on a whim. And as it is just one case, it looks like you were just looking for any excuse for this decision. All of this is really demotivating to participate in the future votings.

Lethargeek wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:50 am

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:49 am Also, the experiment in taking the poll to 14 days. it didn't really add on that many votes. I'm fairly certain we hit 36 votes a week ago, and only two more were cast since then, so I'm taking the polls back to a 7 day length. It's more than adequate for voting.

Yet again i don't get the logic behind that. As "didn't really add that many" does mean it DID add some - those being now named unimportant and "inadequate" just on a whim. And as it is just one case, it looks like you were just looking for any excuse for this decision. All of this is really demotivating to participate in the future votings.

Cool, don't vote then, ignore all my polls. Two of the three polls didn't add ANY new votes in their second week.

It takes me an age to set them up, if it's not to your taste (and not every thread on this forum is to my taste), just move on.

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:54 pm It takes me an age to set them up,

...and has absolutely nothing to do with the voting time. But whatever, it is pointless anyway to participate in anything where your contribution might be any moment judged as unimportant. Ok, i won't pollute these super-important polls with my lazy and inadequate choice anymore.

Hey Lethargeek, did you vote in the second week cos you seem a bit upset about the decision. I'm sure Pete wasn't directly calling your vote irrelevant, just the extra week wasn't worth the extras it gained. I for one wondered what the hell was going on when no new polls appeared last weekend, i musta missed the post about the 2 week trial thing.

I rather enjoy these polls and visit daily to see peoples comments on them and actually look forward to new ones each weekend. And here i am on the Monday night with a fresh bunch of polls to ponder over, screenshots to look at and discuss etc. I know it must take ages setting these up, there has to be some input from us lot, and i do think 2 weeks at a time is too long.

Lets not start fighting over Petes decision, he is creating these after all, its up to him...