(RETRO) The RETRO Top 100 NES Homebrew Games ranking is coming Tuesday. Tell your friends!

This'll be a good chance for folks who didn't realize it to discover that the Nintendo of their youth is back—and in a surprising number of cases, better than ever. retrostack.substack.com
(PS) RETRO has play-tested, assessed and curated so many NES homebrew games that tomorrow's debut Top 100 will include *fifty* honorable mentions. So the total number of gamers and game development studios that I think will take an interest in tomorrow's reveal is...considerable.
(PS2) A few tags for the RETRO Top 100: #nesdev @NESHomebrew @ParisoftGames @morphcat @6502Collective @atonofglaciers @mojon_twins @LowtekGames @johnblueriggs @MetalJesusRocks @RetroHangover @megacatstudios and anyone else y'all want to bring over to RETRO tomorrow (Tuesday PM).
(PS3) I expect that not everyone in the NES homebrew scene will be happy with me on Tuesday, but this really is the first in running series of rankings and (as I hope the essay preceding the debut will make clear) I'm *committed* to the series getting better and better over time.

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