I'll talk about the combining clones idea first. I think that's a good idea - shoulda put it down. I.E. if somebody mentions a clone, or a unique game that's actually a clone(i.e. Crazy Kong = Donkey Kong, and Super Sprint = Championship Sprint), then we'll combine those votes, infusing them into the main game. Now you can't vote a game as a 10 pointer, then it's clone as a 9 pointer, then another clone, 8 points.(we haven't had that problem yet)(posted 9576 days ago)The rule states that if a game is SIMILAR IN GAMEPLAY then the one with more points passes... this leads to my bad news: Ghouls N' Ghosts is NOT a clone of Ghosts N' Goblins. Ghouls was made in '88, Ghosts made in '85. The gameplay is different enough to disqualify it from clone status. Then again... I guess the players can make an exception to this ruling if they want... and make ghouls a "clone" of ghosts... though I bet people will come up and mention the same thing for regulation competition... I don't know. Do you want to make it a "clone" chad(you'd have to get more players to back you up though), or change your vote to Ghosts N' Goblins?
Heck... maybe the whole rule should be changed and say those that are very similar in gameplay should be combined... but then again... hangon and outrun would be combined... they are both "checkpoint" racing games... it would be really subjective for us to determine.
As for the points leeching thing... I really couldn't determine how much points leaching could be over the line at the time I made that rule. I guess if you start leeching for more than 60 seconds or two lives or something that's a violation. I'm not too sure of a concreate number... this is why I said it was the judge's discretion... anyone want to contribute to this conversation?
Thanks for reading :)