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2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST DEMO Best Demo: Selection should be based on the quality of the demo as a whole. Any demo completed during the year. Minimal input, such as choosing a menu option to move on to the next part of the demo, will be allowed. Demos completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the demo are ineligible. Hacks are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: AcidRain by Jeremiah and Kno1 Alpha Cucks by Dentifrice Compofiller by g0blinish Dengue Fever by Digital Sounds System & Flush Hard 2632 by Imp & SvOlli Lapin Kulta by Dentifrice M by Flush Mushroom Adventure by Satori Stella A Trois by Flush Three Minus by altair Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST GAME HACK Best Game Hack: Any hack completed during the year. Hacks completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to previous versions the same hack are ineligible. Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Active Shooter (Turmoil hack) by James Catalano aka JamCat Reloaded ALF (Taz hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games & James Catalano aka JamCat Reloaded Batman (Popeye hack) by James Catalano aka JamCat Reloaded Berzerk NEO Version 2 (Berzerk hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games Broadside (Combat hack) by Claudio Salvucci aka CDS Games Dawn of the Dead (Worm War I hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games Extinction (Demon Attack hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games Ketchup Kaboom! (Kaboom! hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games Miner 2049er Faster (Miner 2049er hack) by Thomas Jentzsch (speed up hack), OmegaMatrix (reset bug fix), and doctorclu (sprite hack) MissADVENTURE (Adventure hack) by Alan W. Smith Moon Patrol Arcade DC Version (Moon Patrol+ hack) by doctorclu Q*Bert Jump (Amoeba Jump hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games (No ROM available, Video Link) Santa HERO ET (H.E.R.O. hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games Stargate Desert Raid (River Raid hack) by DevKK and Whip Stranger Things – Barb’s Revenge (Dig Dug hack) by keebz U.F.O. Galaxian (Galaxian Hack) by James Catalano aka JamCat Reloaded Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST WIP HOMEBREW Best WIP Homebrew: Any WIP game that has public available video of its game play or had a digital download available and is to be judged on the newest qualifying version released during the year. A WIP that has only been announced or only has screenshots is not enough to qualify for a nomination. Any WIP game that has made it to the selected list for Best WIP Homebrew in a previous year is not eligible to be nominated again in the WIP Homebrew category even if the WIP has been updated. Hacks and Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Aardvark by Oscar Toledo Gutiérrez aka nanochess, Thomas Jentzsch (coding), Nathan Strum (graphics) Amoeba Jump by Dion Olsthoom aka Dionoid Black Jack Theta VIII by Edward Gilmour aka azure ChaoticGrill (port of Burgertime) by splendidnut, NostAlgae37 (graphics) Dare Devil (bB) by Lewis Hill aka Muddyfunster Dragon’s Descent (bB) by Revontuli Pac-Man 2600 8K by DINTAR816 Railslider (bB) by Lillapojkenpåön Robo-Ninja Climb by Nathan Tolbert aka gauauu RoboMechanik by Krzysztof Kluczek aka KK/Altair Spies in the Night 2 (bB) by Jared Gray West aka graywest Wizard of Wor Arcade by John W. Champeau aka johnnywc of Champ Games, Mike Haas (sound), Nathan Strum (graphics) Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST PACKAGING Best Packaging: Should be based on the quality of the packaging, manual, cartridge label and other associated promotional materials for a completed game during the year. Games completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the game are ineligible. Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Alien Greed 5 by Chris Read aka atari2600land, packaging by Yandman Astronomer (bB) by Alex Pietrow aka Coolcrab, packaging by Alex Pietrow Balloon Trip by bluswimmer, packaging by Vladimir Zuñiga Bouncer (Boing! hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games, packaging by Scott Dayton Dungeon II: Solstice by David Weavil aka s0c7, packaging by Dave Dries Ketchup Kaboom! (Kaboom! hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games, packaging by Corey Kramer Mappy by John W. Champeau aka johnnywc of Champ Games, packaging by Nathan Strum Plague (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian, packaging by Fehér János Zoltán Q*Bert Jump (Amoeba Jump hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games, packaging by Scott Dayton Santa Bros. (Mario Bros. hack) by Scott Dayton aka neotokeo2001 of NEO Games, packaging by Joe Klander Space Game (bB) by Karl Garrison aka Karl G & Maggie Vogel, packaging by Maggie Vogel Tyre Trax (bB) by Lewis Hill aka Muddyfunster, packaging by Atariboy2600 Zombie Road Kill by Jason Santuci of Gemintronic, packaging by D. C. Stuelpner Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST MUSIC & SOUND Best Music & Sound: Selection should be based on the quality and creativity of the audible elements for a completed game during the year. Games completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the game are ineligible. Hacks and Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Apollyon (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Asteroid Rescue (bB) by Ross Adkin aka TidusRenegade Beeware (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Fear of the Dark (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Gizzle Wap and the Terrible Blizzard of Firn, The (bB) by Jeff Smith aka Mountain King Mappy by Mike Haas aka iesposta and Darrell Spice Jr. Plague (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Space Game (bB) by Karl Garrison aka Karl G & Maggie Vogel Stripes of Terror by Krzysztof Kluczek, Michał Żuchowski, & Mariusz Górski Sword of Surtr (bB) by Jeff Stermer aka ultima Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST GRAPHICS Best Graphics: Selection should be based on the quality and creativity of the visual elements for a completed game during the year. Games completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the game are ineligible. Hacks and Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Apollyon (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Balloon Trip by bluswimmer Dungeon II: Solstice by David Weavil aka s0c7 Fear of the Dark (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Gizzle Wap and the Terrible Blizzard of Firn, The (bB) by Jeff Smith aka Mountain King Mappy by John W. Champeau aka johnnywc of Champ Games & Nathan Strum Plague (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Sheep It Up! (bB) by Dr. Ludos Space Game (bB) by Karl Garrison aka Karl G & Maggie Vogel Stripes of Terror by Krzysztof Kluczek, Michał Żuchowski, & Mariusz Górski Sword of Surtr (bB) by Jeff Stermer aka ultima Tron (bB) by Orange808 Tyre Trax (bB) by Lewis Hill aka Muddyfunster Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST PROGRAMMING Best Programming: Selection should be based on the quality and creativity of the gameplay and game design in a completed game during the year. Games completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the game are ineligible. Hacks and Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Apollyon (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Balloon Trip by bluswimmer Dungeon II: Solstice by David Weavil aka s0c7 Fear of the Dark (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Gizzle Wap and the Terrible Blizzard of Firn, The (bB) by Jeff Smith aka Mountain King Mappy by John W. Champeau aka johnnywc of Champ Games and Thomas Jentzsch NeXion 3D (bB) by Brock Keaghey aka TheMajorHavoc Plague (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Sheep It Up! (bB) by Dr. Ludos Stripes of Terror by Krzysztof Kluczek, Michał Żuchowski, & Mariusz Górski Sword of Surtr (bB) by Jeff Stermer aka ultima Tyre Trax (bB) by Lewis Hill aka Muddyfunster Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST BATARI BASIC (bB) HOMEBREW Best batari Basic (bB) Homebrew: Selection should be based on the quality of the release as a whole including programming, graphics, music & sound, packaging and gameplay. Any game completed during the year that was developed using the batari Basic (bB) programming environment. Games completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the game are ineligible. Hacks and Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Apollyon (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Gizzle Wap and the Terrible Blizzard of Firn, The (bB) by Jeff Smith aka Mountain King Horizon Shift (bB) by Paul Marrable of Flump Studios UK Monkey King (bB) by Alex Pietrow aka Coolcrab Plague (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Sheep It Up! (bB) by Dr. Ludos Space Game (bB) by Karl Garrison aka Karl G & Maggie Vogel Stardust (bB) by Brian Wayne Shea aka metalbabble Sword of Surtr (bB) by Jeff Stermer aka ultima Tyre Trax (bB) by Lewis Hill aka Muddyfunster Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

2018 Atari Awards Celebrating the best in Atari 2600 Homebrew BEST HOMEBREW Best Homebrew: Selection should be based on the quality of the release as a whole including programming, graphics, music & sound, packaging and gameplay. Any game completed during the year is qualified. Games completed in a previous year are not eligible. Re-releases or updates to a previous version of the game are ineligible. Hacks and Demos are not eligible for this category and are only eligible in their specific category. Voting: Please select one of the choices for this category. The winner and runners up will be revealed LIVE during the 2018 Atari Awards Presentation Ceremony on ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on February 23rd, 2019 at 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT! Nominees: Balloon Trip by bluswimmer Birds and Beans by bluswimmer Dungeon II: Solstice by David Weavil / s0c7 Mappy by John W. Champeau aka johnnywc of Champ Games Plague (bB) by Fehér János Zoltán aka MemberAtarian Refraction by Norbert Landsteiner aka NoLand Sheep It Up! (bB) by Dr. Ludos Stripes of Terror by Krzysztof Kluczek, Michał Żuchowski, & Mariusz Górski Sword of Surtr (bB) by Jeff Stermer aka ultima Tyre Trax (bB) by Lewis Hill aka Muddyfunster Download (Binaries/Instructions/Packaging): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AG3wc7MKI7gPQis&id=EBF48A1964E7EEB5%21528&cid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5

I did mean 11AM PT, thanks Karl G! I did notice the mistake later but it was already too late to edit the post so I hoped people inferred it from the other times posted. :-)

No twitter account required, you'll be voting through the AA Forums! :-) More details will be announced on the ZeroPage Homebrew livestream tomorrow and then posted here afterwards.

2018 ATARI AWARD NOMINEE ANNOUNCEMENTS! LIVE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2019 on ZEROPAGE HOMEBREW! The nominees announcements of all ten categories for the 2018 edition of the Atari Awards will take place LIVE on the ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on January 23rd, 2019 at 11PM PT | 2PM ET | 7PM GMT! We will also be giving out the voting information so you will be able to vote your favourite games of last year into the top spot! After the full announcements we will be playing through the nominated games on the show so stick around afterwards for some homebrew gaming from the best of 2018!

2018 ATARI AWARD NOMINEE ANNOUNCEMENTS! LIVE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2019 on ZEROPAGE HOMEBREW! The nominees announcements of all ten categories for the 2018 edition of the Atari Awards will take place LIVE on the ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on January 23rd, 2019 at 11AM PT | 2PM ET | 7PM GMT! We will also be giving out the voting information so you will be able to vote your favourite games of last year into the top spot! After the full announcements we will be playing through the nominated games on the show so stick around afterwards for some homebrew gaming from the best of 2018! EDIT: Updated with Video

It's fun once in a while to play a game that is not just a straight forward 'shoot everything that moves' and this was definitely one of those. Very fun and challenging, even when we figured it out! Looking forward to playing the full 16K version (minus the mini-games we've already played) especially since it supports audio through the AtariVox in addition to the in game sounds!

It looks like Sync did get a cart release (thanks for the updated info Thomas Jentzsch!). Here's the link to the Sync cart release that contains the 1K sync games plus more! https://www.atari2600homebrew.com/sync.html Plus you can buy it on cart in the AA Store! https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=877 I just played the 4K version on the show yesterday and I'll be playing the full 16K version in an upcoming episode.

SORRY FOR THE SUPERNECRO OF THIS THREAD!! We'll be featuring Thrust+ Platinum on the ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream LIVE today at 6PM PT/9PM ET! Hope everyone can tune in to watch us play! Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.t...ropagehomebrew/ Featured Games: Thrust+ Platinum (2003) by Thomas Jentzsch Alien Pinball (2015 WIP) by Ed Riley aka winkdot Sync (2006 Compilation) by Simone Serra aka seemo

We'll be featuring Alien Pinball on the ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream LIVE today at 6PM PT/9PM ET! Hope everyone can tune in to watch us play! Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.t...ropagehomebrew/ Featured Games: Thrust+ Platinum (2003) by Thomas Jentzsch Alien Pinball (2015 WIP) by Ed Riley aka winkdot Sync (2006 Compilation) by Simone Serra aka seemo EDIT: Link to Episode Archive

We'll be featuring Sync on the ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream LIVE today at 6PM PT/9PM ET! Hope everyone can tune in to watch us play! Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.t...ropagehomebrew/ Featured Games: Thrust+ Platinum (2003) by Thomas Jentzsch Alien Pinball (2015 WIP) by Ed Riley aka winkdot Sync (2006 Compilation) by Simone Serra aka seemo EDIT: Link to Episode Archive

The Australian accents are super hard to notice in the commercial but they're there and they mention 'Ansett Air Freight' which is an Australian airline. Hopefully this helps you on your quest to find more information about it!

We'll be knocking Sync off the list on tomorrow's show (6PM PT/9PM ET)!! Thanks for the links to Seemo's other two last games we haven't covered, I'll add them to the to-play list. :-) I agree, I love the completely unique style that Seemo is able to extract from the 2600 that matches it's capabilities so well. There's no compromise or over-extension, the games were made with the wonderfulness of the 2600 in mind.

We definitely did! Some of the best (and most addictive) games are the simple ones that have great repeat value to return to them, especially head-to-head two player games!

We had a lot of fun playing your game on the livestream, especially once we figured out a good strategy to hold a point competition by trading off who was doing the chasing. I think it's really important to port these forgotten arcade games as I had never heard about it before encountering your game. Great job on it!

Here's the archive of yesterday's ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream of Thomas' Trak-Ball hack of Marble Craze! A definite recommended download as the Trak-Ball makes the game a ton of fun to play! GAMEPLAY BEGINS AT 1:27:53

It's a two player game where one person tries to catch the other before the time runs out. On the livestream we took turns for who chased and who got chased.

You're very welcome, it was a ton of fun to play on the stream! Aerlan applied all his dungeon crawling skills to the game and had a blast finishing it. :-) I'll definitely have to play it next time on the stream. Looks like you have some great add-ons to the game in the update below and in the future, can't wait to stream it again on a show later in the year!