The guys over at The Dreamcast Junkyard are currently running a poll that they call the Dreamcast Top 200. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Dreamcast’s release in Japan, they are looking to find out what the top 200 games in the Dreamcast’s library are, according to the fans. To that end, they’ve put up a poll where you can vote on your favorites in the library. Here’s the news straight from the source:
Back in 2009, we set up a top 100 poll for everyone to vote on their favorite Dreamcast games for the 10th anniversary of the Dreamcast’s American launch of 9.9.99. It led to the most comprehensive fan chosen chart for the Dreamcast, and the longest article I have ever written.
Now here we are four years later for the 14th anniversary of 9.9.99 with ROUND 2.
This recount feels like a long time coming as I feel we could get even more people involved this time if this is spread all over Twitter, Facebook and the like. Quite a few indie games were released in that time since the last poll and quite a few Dreamcast classics have found a new generation of fans thanks to HD re-releases.
This new poll, just like the previous one, features every single retail and indie Dreamcast game released up to this date (the most recent being Sturmwind), with well over 500 in total! You can vote for as many games as you want so take your time to go through the list and make sure you have found all the games you enjoyed on the system
Games are listed with their regional names beside them (for example: Virtua Tennis 2/ Power Smash 2 / Tennis 2K2) and in a few cases games from the same series where the installments are quite similar are merged (such as the NBA 2K games) to save room. If you can’t find a game, use Ctrl+F to search for it.
The poll will close on November 18th. The results will be counted and if any games have the same amount of votes new polls will be put up for a week to decide which should be above the other.
The final results will be released on November 27th, the 15th anniversary of the Dreamcast’s Japanese launch. This time around however, because so many great games missed out on the top 100 last time…I feel it’s only fair this time…to make it a top 200.
Thanks to pcwzrd13 for the news.