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Sorry! I will store these x-ray specs in a safe place now 🙂

Lol maybe because I have that moderator shield icon 🙂 But if it’s really that, I can’t tell if it’s open to everyone else or not. I just assumed it was. Oops.

I don’t know, I can see it. Thought everyone could too.

I thought it was elegant of @drludos not to vote in his own game. Which is quite fun as others have mentioned. A vote in it would have been perfectly justifiable.

I used Artrag’s approach for digitized sound effects in Infiltrator. Dog barks for instance. It does not lock the CPU and sounds a little better with the ECS. But it does not reach high enough clarity for voices. Like when enemies say “Stop!” for instance. Trade-offs, trade-offs… Good thing we have so many smart people coming up with different approaches!

Definitely “The Goonies”. - Opcode level of quality for physical components. - 6-channel ECS music - 2 additional songs, jingles redone. - Character can punch from the start, while also leveling up. - Health indicator shown (for clarity) when health is replenished. - New level intro animation - one additional sound effect - Bug fixes - Better looking logo at title screen - Visual indicators of “ECS detected” and “Cheat mode active” - Can’t believe it fits a regular cart - Generally aligns better with the MSX Konami original.

From your review: "I appreciated that it ended up actually being kind of hard to catch the ghosts in this version. Even with multiple strategies, I still miss a few here and there which adds to the replayability and challenge of what was such an impressive gaming sequence when the title released on the C64 all those years ago. " It looks like the "adaptive difficulty" feature (not included on the C64 original) is working as intended 🙂 The game should feel challenging to players of all skill levels... but not too much. PS.: for those who miss having more than one skill setting... simply try playing without buying the ghost bait. Buy a trap instead. That should keep you busy 🙂

Idea: submit a demo as part of the Intybasic Programming Contest.

Thanks. Fixed.

Hence the saying: s**t happens.

4*(10+RANDOM(11))

I would try showing the contents of the .cfg to the Backbit devs. It may be good for them to see how memory is being used.

The 2023 Intellivision Homebrew Awards are now closed and below is a summary of results. Detailed results are now accessible by opening each poll inside the Awards sub forum. Huge congrats to all winners! 2023 GAME OF THE YEAR Winner: Dragon Quest (Intellivision Collector / Matthew Kiehl) 2nd: Super Mario Bros (Kontravision Games / The Kontravision Team) 3rd: Thunder Soldier (Homebrew, Inc. / Oscar Toledo G.) Best Port or Conversion Winner: Dragon Quest (Intellivision Collector / Matthew Kiehl) 2nd: Super Mario Bros (Kontravision Games / The Kontravision Team) 3rd: Caverns of Mars (Homebrew, Inc. / Captain Ports) Best Hack Winner: Tron Anthology (IntelligentVision / David Harley) 2nd: Lock n' Chase: Revenge of Lupin (IntelligentVision / David Harley) 3rd: Rock'em Sock'em: SP Boxing (IntelligentVision / David Harley) Best Action Game Winner: Super Mario Bros (Kontravision Games / The Kontravision Team) 2nd: Thunder Soldier (Homebrew, Inc. / Oscar Toledo G.) 3rd: Caverns of Mars (Homebrew, Inc. / Captain Ports) Best Original Game Winner: Thunder Soldier (Homebrew, Inc. / Oscar Toledo G.) 2nd: Pumpkin Trilogy (Homebrew, Inc. / Oscar Toledo G.) 3rd tie: Mr. Chess (Homebrew, Inc. / Oscar Toledo G.) / Mr. Turtle (CollectorVision Games / The Collectorvision Team) Best Graphics Winner: Dragon Quest (Intellivision Collector / Matthew Kiehl) 2nd: Super Mario Bros (Kontravision Games / The Kontravision Team) 3rd: Thunder Soldier (Homebrew, Inc. / Oscar Toledo G.) Best Sound & Music Winner: Dragon Quest (Intellivision Collector / Matthew Kiehl) 2nd: Super Mario Bros (Kontravision Games/ The Kontravision Team) 3rd: Caverns of Mars (Homebrew, Inc. / Captain Ports) Best Artwork, Packaging & Extras Winner: Ghostbusters Deluxe (Inty-Home / Dino Yachaya) 2nd: Dragon Quest (Intellivision Collector / Steve Jones, Luc Boudreau, Mark Thompson, Phil Boland) 3rd: Tron Anthology (IntelligentVision / Steve Jones, Mark Thompson, Phil Boland) Community Engagement: statistics 2023: Range 41-48 votes per category, Average 44.5 votes per category 2022: Range 46-55, Average 50.6 2021: Range 37-54, Average 47.2 While the average #votes per category received for 2023 was slightly lower than the 2 years before, the range of votes received across categories has tightened. A tighter range is a good thing, as it indicates there's not much of a tendency to nitpick categories when voting. Big thanks to the Intellivision Community for engaging once again with this tradition! See you next year!

I gave @atari2600land’s version a shot, I think the difficulty is more reasonable when compared with Paku Paku. It’s a fun little game, I like it. Could be great as part of a compilation.

Polls are now closed and results will be announced during an upcoming Papa Pete stream. Stay tuned!