Puzzle finally out! I'll probably have to go to sleep before it's solved, but the answer should be incredibly obvious once you get all the movies, and hopefully I clued the movies well enough.

Nice puzzle @bobble :) Your clues worked out really well!

that was a fun one

should the "odds" in #8 be "evens" or am i reading it wrong?

even-numbered letters of "contest"

hmm actually my parsing doesn't use the word "programmers" at all so most likely i am reading some thing wrong

Thanks all! The "programmers' odds" was my favorite part of any of the clues, and I'm glad it tripped some people up :)

So @jafe - you've got the final puzzle in the series! Note that this time you don't have to clue the name of another game. The final one could just clue some kind of phrase loosely related to the theme in a wrapping-it-all-up kind of way. (You'll also need to use the slightly different alternative wording for the smalltext...) Excited we made it all the way to #10!

I tried to make the answer an easy game to use, since that way the final puzzle has a lot of room to be completely awesome

@bobble nice move