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27 votes
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How car dealerships scam America
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Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Lobbying Topic
Welcome to the lobbying topic for CGA! This is your chance to try to sway people's votes by endorsing certain titles. Let people know why a certain game is awesome, or how a particular entry is of...
Welcome to the lobbying topic for CGA!
This is your chance to try to sway people's votes by endorsing certain titles. Let people know why a certain game is awesome, or how a particular entry is of historical value, or why others really need to play this gem of yesteryear.
Lobbying is not limited in any way, so you can endorse/support as many entries as you like.
Negative lobbying is also allowed, but please try to do it as fairly as possible. The point isn't to rag on someone else's choices, but it might be acceptable in cases such as "The camera controls unfortunately can be very frustrating" or "It's quite hard to get up and running." Basically: try to keep it to valuable information that people would want to know before playing, but not for the purposes of hating on a game in particular.
Anyone can participate. CGA does not require membership and is always open to all.
Importantly, this is NOT the final voting topic. This topic will remain up for 48 hours, after which we will hold the voting in a separate topic.
A reminder on the voting mechanics
Just so people remember how the voting will go and can plan accordingly:
- Each person will have 20 votes to distribute among games they see fit.
- Each person will be able to allocate a maximum of 5 points per Single Game/Arcade Special.
A reminder on the culling mechanics
And again, so people can plan for what happens to the list once voting is completed:
- The top 6 games will be chosen to be played (or more in the event of a tie).
- The top 50% will advance to the next round. They will start the next round with a base score of 70% of their vote totals.
- The bottom 50% will be removed from the list.
Game List
All nominations and boosts have been added, so this is the final list of games and their vote totals that we will be deciding on.
Game Rollover Votes Another World 19 Back in a Flash
Bloons Tower Defense
Line Rider
Motherload
QWOP
Stick RPG25 Behind the Wheel
Lego Island
Rally-X
Sega Rally Championship15 Beneath a Steel Sky 15 Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow 23 The Colonel’s Bequest 15 Crystalis 15 Descent 18 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist 13 The Genesis of Treasure
Gunstar Heroes
McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
Dynamite Headdy
Alien Soldier
Light Crusader0 The Grue That Binds
Border Zone
Twisted!
Zork15 JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future 12 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 15 Lode Runner 12 Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals 26 Maniac Mansion 0 Metroid 14 Metroid Prime 19 Mother 3 0 Red Dead Redemption 0 Resident Evil (REmake) 0 Scroll Lock-on
Einhander
Ikaruga
Paradroid
Raid on Bungeling Bay
Thunder Force IV14 Sid Meier’s Pirates 24 Space Rogue 0 StarTropics 15 Tetris 13 Threads of Fate 15 Tony Hawk’s Pro-Skater 2 13 12 votes -
Michigan anti-trust lawsuit alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts
20 votes -
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law
14 votes -
How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
30 votes -
Heritage Foundation and allies discuss dismantling the EU
40 votes -
The history of coloring margarine
14 votes -
US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
46 votes -
'Smoking gun proof': fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
28 votes -
Google formally endorses right to repair, will lobby to pass repair laws
25 votes -
Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network
13 votes -
Large livestock companies and lobby groups will target pavilions in a coordinated campaign at the UN climate summit, documents show
7 votes -
Despite years of Maui wildfire warnings, Hawaii Electric the Hawaii utility giant did little and spent more on lobbying than prevention
27 votes -
The US tech industry has largely co-opted the once-dreaded “patchwork” of state rules through effective lobbying— and its success is sapping momentum for federal legislation
7 votes -
The hidden fee costing US doctors millions every year
22 votes -
How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law
11 votes -
More than 1,500 US fossil fuel lobbyists serve as “double agents”
23 votes -
Inside Big Beef’s climate messaging machine: Confuse, defend and downplay
8 votes -
Could ultra-processed foods be harmful for us?
10 votes -
Dark waters: How the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
5 votes -
Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms threaten to block “healthy” food labelling guidelines in court
9 votes -
Academy looking into whether Andrea Riseborough campaign violated rules
2 votes -
Anti-trans candidates fail to make major gains in Ontario school board elections
8 votes -
Stomping the margarine: Life when we had to color our food
7 votes -
Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
21 votes -
Right-wing think tank Family Research Council, a staunch opponent of abortion and LGBTQ rights, joins growing list of activist groups seeking church status to shield themselves from financial scrutiny
6 votes -
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
18 votes -
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
11 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
6 votes -
How the sugar industry makes political friends and influences elections
2 votes -
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
14 votes -
Exxon lobbyist shares parts of their playbook with reporter on camera
5 votes -
Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal
12 votes -
Aston Martin in row over 'sock puppet PR firm' pushing anti-electric vehicle study. Report disputing green benefits of EVs attributed to company registered to wife of carmaker’s director.
7 votes -
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech US advocacy group
6 votes -
Stop the coronavirus corporate coup
10 votes -
Inside TurboTax’s twenty-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free
16 votes -
The Swedish dairy lobby is fighting alternative milks, like Oatly, as if they're an existential threat
13 votes -
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
15 votes -
The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects
4 votes -
Scientist who discredited meat guidelines didn’t report past food industry ties
8 votes -
The Kochtopus’s garden
9 votes -
Tech giants amass a lobbying army for an epic Washington battle
10 votes -
Science institute that advised EU and UN 'actually industry lobby group'
10 votes -
Secrecy, self-dealing, and greed at the NRA
13 votes -
Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
9 votes -
Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
5 votes -
New Zealand Opposition MP Judith Collins tells US lobby group NRA to 'bugger off' over bipartisan New Zealand gun reform
10 votes