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  1. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

    He are the vote counts for the identical categories of 2018 and 2019 compared.

     

      2018  2019  Increase
    Atari 2600: Best Homebrew 119 134 +13%
    Atari 2600: Best Music & Sound 80 94 +18%
    Atari 2600: Best Packaging 101 127 +26%
    Atari 2600: Best Graphics 101 117 +16%
    Atari 2600: Best WIP 115 102 -11%
    Total 516 574 +11%

     

    It is quite obvious that packaging increased above average. Which indicates some manipulation. But was it decisive? Lets do some math.

     

    Without Best Packaging, the votes would have increased by 8% on average. Using this increase on Best Packaging would have resulted in 109 total votes. Which means statistically ~18 (127 - 109) votes are questionable. Rally Racer won by 34 votes. So there is a good chance that Rally Racer would have won anyway.

    BTW: Any idea why the Best WIP vote count was against the trend?

     

    Thanks Thomas, i was here doing the same math and got the same conclusion.

    I was really intrigued by that about WIP as well.

  2. Posted

    I honestly think that Zero Page has eliminated any doubtful votes that may have occurred in all categories.
    Perhaps they will publish the final result, which would clarify several points, for example: how many voted for this category in 2018 and 2019? Was there an absurd increase in the number of voters or is it more or less in the average?
    Because honestly, without even knowing how many new people voted for this edition, it seems to me an excessive and disproportionate judgment from you.
    And as to whether it is better or worse, it is a personal opinion, -“oh I think the fourth or fifth best”, ok was your vote.

    Apparently everything is ok with the vote and if it really is, your vote lost, this is called democracy.

  3. Posted

    Hi guys, just making it clear that I am not responsible for the game Rally Racer, just a collector who knows the game well and thought that the arguments to ban the game were extremely strong and disproportionate.
    There was no movement on the part of More Work or its managers requesting mass votes on their game, nor creating accounts for that, let alone fake accounts.
    I believe that new users with good intentions, made on new IPs, are real people and only have to add to the award and the whole AtariAge.
    I am radically against any fraud, so I agree to ban any recent user created on repeated IP, or via proxy, VPN.
    Remembering that it is my opinion and of several collector friends, many who already knew Atariage and others who discovered it recently and intend to continue doing part of this great community.
    Please excuse any excess and I know that your decision will be as impartial as possible.

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  5. Posted · Edited by RodrigoAB

    9 minutes ago, Albert said:

    I've been running this forum for about 20 years now, and I've had to deal with people creating multiple accounts many times over that period of time.  Usually this occurs after someone has been banned and they try to sign up for a new account to get around the ban.  In the case of these polls for the 2019 Atari Awards, one individual from Brazil signed up for four accounts one right after another all using the same IP address.  And that's not the only example.  There are other ways for me to link accounts together as well.

     

     ..Al

    Good example, they need to be banned, and the IP too. 

    cheers, good sunday 

  6. Posted

    1 minute ago, Albert said:

    The rules don't explicitly state, "Don't create multiple accounts to vote in the polls", so I guess we should just allow it, then?  It's sad that we'll have to take steps next year to try and prevent this from happening again.  And Thomas doesn't have anything to do with "changing the rules".  ZeroPage Homebrew and I are discussing how best to handle this situation.

     

    If you keep up with these unfounded accusations, I'm going to boot you from this thread.

     

     ..Al

    “Again “

    You are not serious, now brazilian comunity knows.

    cheers

  7. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Albert said:

    Yeah, that's not what's going on here, so stop peddling that garbage, please. Guess you're okay with people signing up with multiple accounts to shill vote for a single game?
     

      ..Al

    Multiple accounts? Of course its not ok for me! 
    How do you know is multiple? I know 10 friends, collectors that make a account to vote, they are real people my friend, very real.

  8. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

    I never demanded you should vote on all categories. But only voting for packaging and for obvious reasons doesn't do justice to the other entries. 

     

    And I won't react to your accusations.

    Ok, what will be the new rule? You need to vote in 2 categories? 3?

    You are a very intelligent men and you all know that it doesnt make any sense.

    But its your award isnt it?

    So, you can change the rules with the game playing!! 

     

    Good Lucky for all ( from AA Of course)

     

     

     

  9. Posted · Edited by RodrigoAB

    8 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

    The intention would have worked well if people would not only vote for RR and its packaging. Instead they should have put their obvious national and/or fan bias aside and at least try to decide objectively. And they should have checked and voted in the other categories too like you asked them for.

     

    But that seems to be not the case which is rather sad.

    Sorry but none of these arguments seem plausible justifications for disqualifying a game.
    In addition to none of their justifications being in the rules follows a clear example:
    How would someone who likes Rally Racer packaging and even have access to Atari7800 or 5200 games vote for this part of the award? That would disqualify the award, it is fair to vote with conscience only on what is known.
    It seems to me that it was not in your script to lose in a category and that is why you are creating justifiable justifications for inventing a disqualification, which is at least sad, but in fact only bad faith.
    I hope they are fair because it is not what it seems to me (and to a large part of the community that until today respected AA).

  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

    I am sure I am not the only one who tends to disagree here. I voted for something else (which is not my own game).

     

    And if it would be "by far the best", why would it even be necessary to influence the voting?

    Of course, it was just my opinion, and it's not even the main point of the topic.
    Sorry if I did not express myself well because English is not my first language, in fact it is the third, behind Portuguese and Justice.
    Regards

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  13. Posted · Edited by RodrigoAB

    I think that what you say needs to be proved, because "suspicions" are not in the rules.
    The dissemination of the game and the award on the social networks of collectors only has to add, increase the users of the site, gives more visibility to the award and everything else related to AA.
    Many people like the game and haven't had an AA account yet, which is a concrete proof of what I'm talking about.
    What is the reason for disqualification? "
    “Suspicions" are not the norm, I know the staff at More Work although I have no direct connection with them, I am only a collector, but I am well aware of the honesty and ability of all members.
    And let's face it, the packaging of the Rally Racer is by far the best of all competitors, nobody would have such an incentive to come and vote for it if it weren't really an excellent game (in all aspects).
    Cheers

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  14. Posted

    41 minutes ago, Albert said:
    16 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said:

    Hi @TomBrazil. Every game that was nominated for 'Atari 2600: Best Packaging' has their publicly available promotional material made available for viewing by the community through the download links we provided.

     

    It was never stated outright that developers and fans of the games should not be making posts asking for votes for their games but you can imagine the mess it would create if there were posts made about every game like this.

     

    As @Albert stated above, this post is another problematic sign associated with this games involvement in the event and we are evaluating how to deal with the situation.

     

    - James

     

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  15. Posted

     

    Hi Nukey

    This screen appeared during a race( it’s not a score), i was overtaking cars and obstacles and suddenly got into this screen, so I realized I got a great bonus in miles, then the race back to where I was!

    In the game the author talks about Delorean and other cars (Herbie, Ferrari Testarosa, etc) and they appear during the race as opponents.

    I just don't know exactly what I did to get this bonus!

     

    *The final score screen is another you can see in this print here:

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  16. Posted · Edited by RodrigoAB

    Hi guys, are you enjoying the Rally Racer?

    I just found an easter egg!! 
    At a certain point in the race, I don't know exactly what I did and I entered this bonus screen.

    I read the entire game manual, as tips from the pilot, but didn’t find any concrete information.

    See the picture, Lancia Stratus on the screen! 

    Anyone found this? How can i do this again??

    😊E3B335D1-8C5F-4484-A910-95BE69A0B6F0.thumb.jpeg.f3ffb4b5cf73c8405dbb362a680ca70d.jpeg

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  17. Posted · Edited by RodrigoAB

     

     

    Hi guys, I found an Easter Egg in a really cool homebrew game made in Brazil, it's the Rally Racer fair by More Work Games.
    At a certain point in the race, I don't know exactly what I did and I entered this bonus screen.

    The game has a Pilot Tips manual and I read everything to try to understand what I did but I didn't find out, does anyone know this funny game and got this easter egg? See the picture, Delorean on the screen! And some interesting information. Back to the future? 

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