Game hero poll down, bottle o' wine poll up!

We're halfway the month again, a few days late, all the more reason to change the poll at once! Prior to presenting the new poll, let's have a look at the outcome of the Game hero poll from May/June. What kind of species do you prefer for an MSX game's lead character? After 652 votes, here is the result:

1. Man 21.78 %
2. Woman 15.18%
3. Animal 13.04%
4. Undefined entity 13.04%
5. Supernatural 12.88%
6. Mechanical/artificial 12.27%
7. Extra-Terrestrial 11.81%

Let's get straight towards the next poll. This month is more special than other months. Needless to say, this month we celebrate that 25 years ago the MSX standard was conceived. Some people celebrate this by submitting an entry for the MEGA Challenge, others organize a special event, others will probably turn on their dusty old MSX1 instead of running an emulator, to once more insert a good-old Konami game.

How about this: if you were to open a bottle o' wine with a famous personality from MSX history to celebrate the MSX anniversary at a terrace in a sunny peaceful village in the French Provence, who would that person be? Kay Nishi, the great mind behind the standard? Bill Gates from Microsoft, who has made MSX-BASIC and MSX-DOS (and who may have an funny anecdote or two to share about Steve Ballmer), or perhaps Hideo Kojima, the great mind behind the landmark MSX2 game Metal Gear? How about Martos (and don't try to convince us that you don't know Martos)? Or, especially for the Dutch: MCM icon and chairman of the pigs 'n ducks zoo: Wammes Witkop? Or maybe there is someone else who is even more interesting than these five? Take your pick, they are buying!

If you have an idea for an interesting poll, send your idea to poll@msx.org and we will consider running your suggestion for a month.

Relevant link: Poll results