Those of you who were registered when I joined in January of 2008 know that just days after I vented to Syd about him not having beaten Journey To Silius, I had something HUGE to get off my chest: How the games in the NES and SNES top 100s stacked up to one another. Starting on February 1 of that year, I did a series of polls comparing 100 pairs of games according to position. I endured a lot of criticism for a good chunk of the project, but I eventually completed it, skipping only one day in the process when a poll ended too close to midnight for me to finish writing the new one before then.

Now, four years later, I have something not quite as big to get off my chest: Who is the favorite selectable boss between the classic and X series of the Mega Man franchise?

Here's how it'll work: For the first eight weeks of the project, There will be three polls, the first two, grouping Robot Masters along with a Stardroid, followed by Mavericks, lasting three days and the last, pitting the winners of the first two against one another, only one. The eight categories, which my brother originally conceived before he abandoned the project and I passionately took over, are as follows: Bomb, Freeze, Strong, Electricity, Projectile, Fire, Steel and Spinning. Once the best of the best have been determined, the eight of them will be grouped in a final poll, lasting a full week, to determine once and for all who the favorite selectable boss is.

It should be noted that not all of the choices will seem to fit in with the others. Yamato Man, for instance, will be Option 6 in Favorite Bomb Robot Master. I know Yamato Spear doesn't actually explode, but a lot of stuff in his level does, a fact it took me far too long to realize, as I kept Knight Man in that group before switching him over to Steel.

The project will begin a week hence, on a date that holds particular significance to me, something our leader did himself seven years ago with one of his articles. Until then!

You know damn well I am.

Wielding Astro Crush or Copy Vision?