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Article: 28179 of rec.games.video Path: uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!plitvice.berkeley.edu!erc From: erc@plitvice.berkeley.edu (Eric Ng) Newsgroups: rec.games.video Subject: ABOUT THE VIDEO GAME RATINGS REPORT (last modified Feb 1, 1992) Message-ID: 44053@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Date: 2 Mar 92 23:07:51 GMT Sender: nobody@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: video@irss.njit.edu Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 64
ABOUT THE VIDEO GAME RATINGS REPORT
In this report, video games have been rated on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best and 1 being the worst. For each video game, the total number of votes, the average rating, and the vote distribution are shown. New video games are indicated by an `*' before their entry.
The vote distribution uses a single character to represent the percentage of votes for each ranking. The following characters codes can appear:
`.' no votes cast `3' 30-39% of the votes `7' 70-79% of the votes `0' 1-9% of the votes `4' 40-49% of the votes `8' 80-89% of the votes `1' 10-19% of the votes `5' 50-59% of the votes `9' 90-99% of the votes `2' 20-29% of the votes `6' 60-69% of the votes `*' 100% of the votes
To have your votes tallied in the list, send mail to the video game ratings server (the address is given below). In your letter, any line beginning with the word `vote' will be considered a vote. All other lines are ignored. Votes must be of the form:
vote rating system-code video-game-title
where `rating' is an integer between 1 and 10, `system-code' is a two-letter code describing the system, and `video-game-title' is everything else on the line after `system-code'. Valid system codes include:
Al Atari Lynx Gb Nintendo Game Boy Gg Sega Game Gear Ne Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or Famicom Ng SNK Neo Geo Sn Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) or Super Famicom Sg Sega Genesis or Mega Drive Tg NEC Turbografx-16, Turboexpress, or PC-Engine
Case is not considered in video game titles or system codes. Valid votes might be
vote 10 Sg John Madden Football '92 vote 10 sn super mario world
NO HUMAN WILL EVER SEE YOUR BALLOTS, AND YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF YOUR VOTES. ALSO, THE VIDEO GAME RATINGS SERVER WILL SILENTLY IGNORE ALL INVALID VOTES.
To make things easy, the `Reply-to' field of this posting is set to point to the video game ratings server. If you are using the `rn' newsreader, simply hit `r' to send in your votes.
The source code for this system and much of this text for this ratings report was provided by Chuck Musciano. John Leo originally adapted this system for video games, and Eric Ng (the current video game ratings report administrator) has since made many more modifications.
Thanks for participating in the rec.games.video ratings poll.
Mail votes to video@irss.njit.edu or …!uunet!irss.njit.edu!video; if you have any questions, mail them to video-request@irss.njit.edu or …!uunet!irss.njit.edu!video-request. – eric ng erc@zabriskie.berkeley.edu …!ucbvax!zabriskie!erc