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Advokaiser's take on Game of the 90s actually gets to why I really wanted to push for it and make a mock bracket for it. We saw a lot of the tippy top of the field in the past contests, but the problem is that the tier after that has been severely untested in the past.

All of the past contests having divisions by era means that a lot of the midcard for this format has either been snubbed entirely, or been stuck in SFF matches. Games that have strong potential on this site like Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country, Mortal Kombat, Star Fox (both SNES and 64), Resident Evil, Link's Awakening, Mega Man 3, Mega Man X1-5, Doom, Mario Kart (Super and 64), Sonic 1 and 3, Battletoads, Secret of Mana, any of Kirby's games including Kirby Super Star, Half-Life 1, Final Fantasy 4, 5, 8, and Tactics. This is scratching the surface of what would be the meat of the bracket, so you have the chance to see an overall field that would be oozing excitement. Remember that Street Fighter II was a snub for BGE 15, and it's one match in 2004 suggests it could have made the semi-finals, and that even a lower tier game like DKC2 had a run because that's how strong this 10 year period is.

And then even the fodder would be interesting, and that's actually where I had some of the most fun composing the bracket. A bracket that has games like Donkey Kong '94, Twisted Metal 2, some of the extensive cult RPG classics like Lunar:SSSC and Lufia 2 in its bottom floor would be exciting. And they might actually win matches now that they aren't being stuck in cramped division by eras against the leaders of their own genre. Remember that Suikoden II of all games won a match in 2015 and showed that it was devauled in drawing FF7 in round one and only being able to take 15% there.
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