Box Art Tournament - Overview Thread

[rupert]

Welcome to the Box Art Tournament!

There will be 2 stages and then a grand final.

I put all games in alphabetical order, numbered them and then used a random number generator app to come up with the groupings.

Stage 1
15 groups of 21 games. 3 votes per person. The top 3 games from each group progressing to the next stage. Voting closes for stage 1 on Saturday 26th December.
In the event of a tie where the tied games receive more than 1 vote each then all the tied games will progress.
In the event of a tie where the tied games only received 1 vote each then none will progress to the next stage.

Stage 2
5 groups of 9 games**. 1 vote per person. The top game from each group progressing to the final.
**Due to 4 ties in Stage 1 there1will be 49 games progressing, 7 groups of 7 games.

The final
The top 10 7 games. There will be 1 vote per person to determine the winner.


I will post links to each group below so you don't have to go searching around the forum for the threads to vote.


About the games
Following a poll it was decided that we would include PAL, US where significantly different and TecToy exclusives/ hacks.

I have had to make a few decisions on what to include and not include on an individual basis and hopefully everyone will be happy with which games I decided to keep out (for example US versions of Bomber Raid and Castle of Illusion, although different the box art is essentially the same).

This meant that 315 games have been included in the first stage.

I hope you enjoy and contribute to this tournament!

Thank you to Maxim / SMS Power! for use of all the cover scans

STAGE 1 VOTING NOW CLOSED (see below for links to Stage 2)
Stage 1 - Group A
Stage 1 - Group B
Stage 1 - Group C
Stage 1 - Group D
Stage 1 - Group E
Stage 1 - Group F
Stage 1 - Group G
Stage 1 - Group H
Stage 1 - Group I
Stage 1 - Group J
Stage 1 - Group K
Stage 1 - Group L
Stage 1 - Group M
Stage 1 - Group N
Stage 1 - Group O


STAGE 2 VOTING NOW CLOSED (see below for link to The Final)
Stage 2 - Group A
Stage 2 - Group B
Stage 2 - Group C
Stage 2 - Group D
Stage 2 - Group E
Stage 2 - Group F
Stage 2 - Group G


The Final - VOTING NOW CLOSED

The Final


The Results!

[barney]

Thanks for pulling this tournament together rupert.

[rupert]

Dec 12, 2015 16:15:54 GMT barney said:

Thanks for pulling this tournament together rupert.

Thanks for the thanks! It's taking longer than I had thought to get all of the stage 1 group polls up. Hopefully get through all 15 by tomorrow evening, might slip into Monday or Tuesday depending on other plans.

I'm going to get Group D up in a couple of hours.

[soup]

Dec 12, 2015 16:15:54 GMT barney said:

Thanks for pulling this tournament together rupert .

Exactly this, thank you.

I'm going to hold off voting for a couple of days to give each group consideration, I'm somewhat indecisive with things like this and don't want to regret my choices if I was to make them too quickly.

[Rastanfarian]

I appreciate the hard work you have put into this rupert!

You are the man. This is just what we needed to spark some renewed interest/discussion about our beloved SMS.

Good work and thanks again.

[wolfticket]

This is awesome, thanks so much for doing this rupert!

[soup]

With this thread being the link to all the groups, could you make it a sticky?

[Stan]

Really interested to see what wins out. I'm trying to vote strictly on art, not game content, especially if the art is unique to the SMS version of the game.

[Rastanfarian]

Dec 13, 2015 0:50:33 GMT Stan said:

  I'm trying to vote strictly on art, not game content,

It can be difficult to do, can't it?

Especially when some games have such beautiful cover art but are trash to play, and vice versa.  

[Rastanfarian]

rupert will games such as Outrun, Ghouls n Ghosts, or Gangster Town that have significantly different art on the Tec Toy version make there own appearance or should we vote for one of them based on the Euro/Pal artwork as shown?

[wolfticket]

Dec 13, 2015 1:52:13 GMT Rastanfarian said:

rupert will games such as Outrun, Ghouls n Ghosts, or Gangster Town that have significantly different art on the Tec Toy version make there own appearance or should we vote for one of them based on the Euro/Pal artwork as shown?

Outrun and Ghouls n Ghosts are just copies of the Mega Drive covers, Gangster Town is unique though

[rupert]

Dec 13, 2015 1:52:13 GMT Rastanfarian said:

rupert will games such as Outrun, Ghouls n Ghosts, or Gangster Town that have significantly different art on the Tec Toy version make there own appearance or should we vote for one of them based on the Euro/Pal artwork as shown?

Good question. I only included Tec Toy exclusives and hacks. I could have also included some of the Portuguese 'Purple' covers which are quite unique. I think it would be too late to include any of these now and I would be surprised if any of them progressed passed the first stage anyway.

[rupert]

Just an FYI - all the games are now live on the stage 1 poll threads.

You have roughly two weeks to make your minds up so no big rush to go through all 15 threads / 315 games straight away!

I've added links to each group poll thread in the first post to make life easier.

Enjoy!

[Rastanfarian]

Dec 13, 2015 2:04:51 GMT rupert said:

Dec 13, 2015 1:52:13 GMT Rastanfarian said:

rupert will games such as Outrun, Ghouls n Ghosts, or Gangster Town that have significantly different art on the Tec Toy version make there own appearance or should we vote for one of them based on the Euro/Pal artwork as shown?

Good question. I only included Tec Toy exclusives and hacks. I could have also included some of the Portuguese 'Purple' covers which are quite unique. I think it would be too late to include any of these now and I would be surprised if any of them progressed passed the first stage anyway.

I've decided to vote strictly on the artwork/covers that are displayed. I may have made different choices if the Tec Toy covers were represented. Good luck everyone... some very difficult choices are ahead of you.

[Melanogaster]

Nicely done, rupert! Looking forward to the finals.