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On October 29, 2007 I was invited to take part in the 5th annual AtariAge Holiday Cart. The plan for the cart to feature a number of mini games with a slick menu to tie the games together. I contacted my nephew Justin for some game ideas and he suggested "You're Frosty collecting stuff" and "You're Rudolf, running away from the other reindeer because they're taunting you". I then started perusing the private Holiday Cart forum and came upon this idea that Nathan Strum had posted a week earlier: The idea was extremely well thought out, and went along with my nephew's first suggestion, so I talked with Nathan then posted a message to the holiday cart forum to make sure nobody else had started to work on it. On the 30th I posted a screenshot, but no ROM or source, of the horizon routine: On the 31st Nathan suggested the name of Stay Frosty and I implemented the score and reserve lives display so we'd know how much screen space we had for the levels themselves. I also realized that "Using Missile 1 for the nose means we can't double or triple the fireball sprite - unless they flicker." ROM: frosty071031.bin Source: sf_source071031.zip Blog entry covers October 29-31, 2007