A twist on a great thing.

With neat little background symbol.

With embossed background symbol.

Twist with symbol.

Twist with embossed symbol.

I'm starting to think that maybe it's getting too complex.

The second one.
On the ones with the background you can't really read "very old games on new systems" that easily.

Number four. The embossed background symbol looks very cool. The small letters for the "very old games on new systems" phrase are somewhat difficult to read on all versions, so I think they could be improved a little.

Good work!

Number 5 (Short Circuit) 😀

I like the "scanline" effect. And I prefer the flat symbol, to me it's more discreet since the embossed one perhaps it's a bit too prominent.

However, all of them are really nice and look very well polished.

Cheers.

Heh, sweet. Three people with three conflicting opinions on the best one. Does anyone have agreement with anyone else? heh

#2
Like the old-school scanlines

#3 Everybody uses scanlines allready !

Long time [mostly unregistered] lurker, first time poster.

None yet. The idea of this place having a dark design kinda sets me back. I always thought it was refreshing that this place didn't have the typical black or dark blue background.

Symbol and font are cool, though.

I can assure you that most of the content will be a lighter blue than that -- I believe it will be about #333399.

Sweet. I'll miss the old gray-blue, but that's different enough to break the monotony of black backgrounds I have to visit. =]

I like the fifth one, because
1. I like the ones with background and
2. it looks the brightest to me

Another note: I like the new design - it looks a lot like a cheap 70's porn logo 😀
I don't like the "very old games..." style. Very hard to read on all versions

[edit: Actually I meant the sixth one... - needs to be changed in the poll-count]

Photoshop mockup. 143kB interlaced PNG, because I'm l33t like that. The background will have a neat fixed pseudo-transparent background. Except it will look wrong in MSIE6. But it looks okay in IE5Mac. But it doesn't in MSIE5. But it looks okay in Mozilla. But it might look wrong in Opera. But it looks okay in Konqueror. Ding.

brain.

ZERO quality and it's STILL almost 60kB!

SORRY to dialuppers. get a cable modem. or, dsl. or, a satellite. if you can't get any, you must be living in a dense jungle on the equator.

voted three on pure gut reaction.

I think I'll be using #3 as you can see. The scanlines were just too annoying to try to deal with fading out smoothly on the Y axis. (The background symbol won't be as light as it is in the mockup, I did a cheap hack to get it in there which made it not use soft light for that layer.)