1979 vs 2009

Ulti's Analysis
15760 votes in a contest match is laughably bad, but just about every match would be like this. Day one was a good indicator, to say the least. Allen's idea of vote-ins were these pre-contest style of match where four matches would happen two a day. This is actually a cool idea that needs to stick around instead of the old vote-ins where we get something like 10 options to a poll. I dig it.

I could get into 1979's 1978 votes being atrocious to historical levels, but we had so many such examples in this contest that I could never cover them all. I am going to make a small comparison once though: https://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/1733-20xx-division-round-1-solid-snake-vs-tanner

Tanner got 4492 votes in that match, and 5.7% of the vote. It was our go-to point for contest futility for years. Fast forward to now, and we get matches where the loser gets 2978 with 19% of the vote. 2004 Tanner could probably finish in the top 10 of the x-stats in the Spring 2017 Contest. So bad.

Regarding 1979 as a gaming year, only guys like neon, transience, or other extremely old people could speak to actually "bring there". We've all played Asteroids and Galaxian at some point, but is anyone complaining about them being blown out? No? Good. Moving on.