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That's great, thanks atari2600land, I didn't even think about Halloween demo type programs. I'll incorporate this into the show. :-)

Does anybody know of any Halloween themed Atari 2600 homebrew games? I know there are TONS of hacks out there but the only original Halloween themed games I could find are: Happy Halloween (WIP) Candy Catcher Tyre Trax: Level 4 (WIP) I'm asking as I'll be doing a ZeroPage Homebrew show on October 31st and wanted to fill it with great Halloween homebrew. If you don't know of any others besides those three, please feel free to recommend your favourite Halloween Atari 2600 hacks! EDIT: Added! Video Jack-O-Lantern (Demo) Elvira (Hack) (by Scott Dayton) Monster's Revenge (Hack of Alien Revenge) by easmith

Definitely! I'll post it in this thread when I know the date. :-)

I think links for where to download, purchase or watch footage of all the 2018 Atari Awards Nominees is a great idea! We'll make that happen in January when the nominees are announced for each category.

Oh definitely the game is being made for the Atari 2600. It mirrors the situation of games that are being developed with the advanced hardware inside of a Harmony Cart. During development for some games you need a Harmony Cart to play and test them but when they're sold as a complete game on it's own cartridge it has everything inside the cart needed to run. To currently play THIS work-in-progress game on an Atari 2600 from a binary file you need an UnoCart, but when/if this game goes to retail, the cartridge would contain everything that's needed to run. People who buy these games don't necessarily know what's going on inside the cartridge, all they know is that they can plug it into their Atari VCS and it works. :-)

This homebrew is not able to run on the Harmony OR the Stella emulator, only a UnoCart (hence my purchase)! I'm not able to reveal anything about the game until the broadcast so I can't really say anything more. Should be very interesting!!

You're very welcome, thanks for making the game! Thank you also on the clarification on how to get into Electric Mode. I think you're right about making Electric the default, it would probably be the right level of difficulty for the normal mode and make the non-Electric an 'easy/kids' mode.

Hopefully the game developer will release a ROM of the WIP game after we show it on the stream. :-)

ZeroPage Homebrew has just placed an order for an UnoCart (thanks MacRorie!!) and we will be debuting the very first (I believe) UnoCart exclusive game in an upcoming ZeroPage Twitch livestream! This WIP game has not been publicly announced anywhere so stay tuned to our social media and our AtariAge forum thread for more details! :-) We're really looking forward to playing around with the UnoCart on the show!

I have just placed an order for an UnoCart and we will be debuting the very first (I believe) UnoCart exclusive game in an upcoming livestream! This WIP game has not been publicly announced anywhere so stay tuned for more details!

Definitely! "Best Technical Achievement" is a category under consideration as there have been some mind blowing audio/visual games coming out lately for the VCS!

Please let us know if we've missed any games/hacks/demos that have been worked on in 2018 that you think should be included in the 2018 Atari Awards!! :-)

That might be a tad overwhelming with the sheer number of games that were released during that time but we'll take it into consideration! 'Best label art' will probably fall under the 'best packaging' category so that we don't have to break it down too far into label, box, manual, etc. :-) Yes, I agree, I think that this will also double as a catch up for some homebrews that people might have missed! Great time to try out some games that may have slipped by you! :-)

We don't want to be overloaded with too many categories but it's truly surprising how many games have been worked on or finished so far in 2018! We are definitely looking for more possible categories before we finalize and release the category list. Keep the suggestions coming for categories and games, we don't want to leave any out. The list of games, hacks and demos released in 2018 is coming soon...

Thank you so much for holding the Stan Awards back in the day. We're really looking forward to honouring all the hard work that is put into these games, hacks and demos. :-)

Yes! We are planning to have a WIP category for the 'most anticipated WIP Atari 2600 game'. We don't want to miss out on all those games that are in progress. :-)

Heya The Maxx! We'll be featuring Hunt The Wumpus (with some other Wumpus games too!) on ZeroPage Homebrew's livestream tomorrow, Wednesday September 12! The show starts at 11AM PT/2PM ET. Hope you can make it, if not, it'll be available for you to watch our YouTube archives the next day. :-) Twitch: https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

Heya bjbest60! We'll be featuring Tombstones on ZeroPage Homebrew's livestream tomorrow, Wednesday September 12! The show starts at 11AM PT/2PM ET. Hope you can make it, if not, it'll be available for you to watch our YouTube archives the next day. :-) Twitch: https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

A very good point! Arenafoot and I forget that the average person is not as geeky as we are about record keeping and release dates and such, hahah! We will post a list shortly so people will be able to take a look the 2018 titles (so far). :-)

THE 2018 ATARI AWARDS! LIVE ON FEBRUARY 23, 2019 presented by ZeroPage Homebrew, The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion and AtariAge The 2018 edition of the Atari Awards, celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew, will take place LIVE on the ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! YOU GET TO VOTE starting January 23, 2019 for your favorite homebrews, hacks and demos when we reveal the final nominees in each of the categories below. After the voting closes on February 18, 2019 and your votes are tallied, the 2018 Atari Awards will be broadcast LIVE on February 23, 2019 to announce the winners and give out the awards! Award Categories: Best Homebrew Best bB Homebrew Best WIP Homebrew Best Game Hack Best Demo Best Programming Best Graphics Best Music & Sound Best Packaging Technical Achievement Award Please feel free to suggest and discuss below all your favorite homebrew games that you think should be nominated for an award for 2018! (Qualifying games must be released during the period of January 1, 2018 through to December 31, 2018) Current list of 2018 Games/WIP/Hacks and Demos: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TYGgJaphZRQ31LvNfCHovEWYB-c_g3Ba/view?usp=sharing (note: List is a living document and may not be 100% accurate, please let us know if you spot any issues)

Heya salstadt! I love the game concept of Fade Out, it's really sad it wasn't completed. If the code is available somewhere, maybe someone will be able to step up and continue with it! We'll be featuring your game on ZeroPage Homebrew's livestream tomorrow, Wednesday September 12! The show starts at 11AM PT/2PM ET. Hope you can make it, if not, it'll be available for you to watch our YouTube archives the next day. :-) Twitch: https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

Tomorrow (Wed) on ZeroPage Homebrew's LIVE twitch stream we will be playing the unreleased and UPDATED version of THE STACKS that Thomas Jentzsch has been working on! http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew For the first time since the 2012 Ready Player One contest, everyone will be able to see the new updated WIP version of The Stacks! Make sure you tune in tomorrow (Wed) at 11AM PT/2PM ET! (thank you to Thomas for making this available to ZeroPage!)

This truly is an amazing (and challenging!) game, a big thanks to Thomas for making it!! I'm so glad to have been able to play it on ZPH for more people to discover it! :-) Here's the link to Wednesday's show where we play Robot City! (we start playing at 1h40m8s): https://youtu.be/VMEDWNluG5g?t=1h40m8s (forward to 1h40m8s, sorry for the distorted mic at the top of the show)

Heya Sprybug! We're doing an 'early WIP homebrew' special episode tomorrow on ZeroPage Homebrew and thought Robot Zed would fit in perfectly. :-) We'll be broadcasting LIVE on Twitch tomorrow (Friday) at 2PM PT/5PM ET, so I hope you can make it! If not, you can catch the episode in our YouTube archives the next day. Hopefully see you there in the chat! Twitch LiveStreams: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

Heya MausGames! Sorry for necroing this thread but we're doing a 'early WIP homebrew' special episode tomorrow on ZeroPage Homebrew and thought Project Eden would fit in perfectly. :-) We'll be broadcasting LIVE on Twitch tomorrow (Friday) at 2PM PT/5PM ET, so I hope you can make it! If not, you can catch the episode in our YouTube archives the next day. Hopefully see you there in the chat! Twitch LiveStreams: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew