Pixelboy Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 (edited) Hello ColecoVision fans! After several months of work and preparations, I'm pleased to announce the official release of six new Team Pixelboy games, namely: - Circus Charlie - Star Force - Golgo 13 - Ninja Princess - Konami's Ping-Pong - Bank Panic The Team Pixelboy web site has been updated accordingly. By the way, you will notice that I removed the "Potential Projects" section in the sidebar, since I don't think I'll ever get around to programming such titles as Pick Axe Pete A.E., Arabian or Discs of Tron. I think I have more than enough on my plate with the games listed in the "Personal Projects" section. I also added Jewel Panic to the "Outsourced Projects" section. Anyhow, I will be contacting everyone on my customer list today, so do keep an eye on your e-mail inbox if you know you are on this list. I would like to use this opportunity to underline a couple of minor issues with Bank Panic and Star Force. I included some addendums in the manuals of those two games (just like I did for Pitfall II Arcade last year, as some of you may recall) to explain the problems, but I'm going to explain these issues below as well. In the case of Star Force, when you turn the CV console on, you may see some glitchy, garbled stuff on the TV screen for a second or two, then the title screen will be displayed and the game will behave normally afterwards. This happens with all Star Force cartridges, only during a cold boot (not after pressing the reset button) and after testing each and every Star Force cart on the same CV console, I can say without too much doubt that it doesn't cause any hardware problems. For Bank Panic, you may see some garbled graphics appear in the status bar during the game, especially in the top right quadrant of the screen. You may even see graphic glitches elsewhere on the screen as you play, but those glitches are much rarer. This happens totally at random, but thankfully, it's only a minor annoyance that doesn't really interfere with the gameplay. Again, all Bank Panic carts carry this issue, and it cannot really be fixed. Eduardo told me that Bank Panic was one of the most challenging SG-1000 ports he has ever done, so it should come at no surprise that the CV port has some lingering issues that were missed during beta-testing. LAYAWAY PLAN AND CONTEST REMINDER I'm offering a layaway plan this year for those who want to buy these new games, but don't have the funds to buy them immediately. This layaway plan offer expires on January 5th 2012, and is explained in full detail within the e-mails that I'm sending out today. The Telegames Custom Box contest also starts officially today. I have set up this web page to explain the details of this contest. CREDIT GIVEN WHERE CREDIT IS DUE On this special occasion, I would like to thank everyone who has helped me make these new releases possible, starting of course with Eduardo Mello, who ported all these games in record time earlier this year. Excellent job, Ed! Next I would like to thank retroillucid and Yurkie, who helped me beta-test these games, and also 5-11under, who purchased the electronics and programmed/soldered the cartridge PCBs together. I also need to thank Dale Crum of Doc4, who prepared the PDF templates of the boxes and manuals for all these new releases. Many thanks to Oliver Puschatzki for acting as middle-man between myself and the german printer company that printed the boxes. I think I should also thank the people at Magic-Copie, who printed the manuals and cart labels in such a professional fashion. A few more thanks are in order: Studio Cutepet for doing such wonderful work on the Ninja Princess box art, Stephen Seehorn for completing the software work on Ninja Princess and thus making its release possible, Omar Cornut for giving me a CIB copy of the SG-1000 version of Golgo 13 (I used the box art for the CV version), Fred Quimby for his work on the Activision PCB (which was used for all these new releases except for Konami's Ping-Pong), and last but not least, Albert Yarusso for holding onto my Activision cart casings. This round of thanks wouldn't be complete without a special "THANK YOU!" to everyone on the AtariAge forum who has supported me and my collaborators through this gigantic effort. It's hard to believe I've been spending most of my free time on getting these games ready since last April! BONUS GIFT! Here are some codes that you can try with last year's batch of Team Pixelboy titles: Gulkave: At the title screen, enter UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, UP, RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT, DOWN, DOWN. You will enter the "test mode" menu, which features a sound test, and lets you select between normal and hard mode (as if the game isn't hard enough on "normal"!!!). Pitfall II Arcade: At the title screen, enter 54312 on the keypad to activate infinite lives, and/or enter 89999 which makes Pitfall Harry invulnerable to everything in the game except collisions with mine carts. Girl's Garden: At the title screen, press a button to start the game, and once the actual game starts, enter 867-5309 on the keypad (it's Jenny's phone number, google it...) to enable the cheat keys: While you play, press 1, 2 or 3 on the keypad to add lives, honey pots and flowers in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Tune in next week (January 1st, to be exact) for the first Team Pixelboy News Bulletin of 2012, in which I will present my various projects for next year, including a special surprise! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL! Edited December 25, 2011 by Pixelboy 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Nice job! How do I order 'em? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 yes let's order! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Email sent...I'm picking up Bank Panic and Star Force along with Circus Charlie on layaway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifershalo Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 By the way, you will notice that I removed the "Potential Projects" section in the sidebar, since I don't think I'll ever get around to programming such titles as Arabian Nooooooooooooooo :( :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Email sent for Ninja Princess, Star Force, and Konami ping pong and then the other 3 on layaway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF31 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Email sent for all six titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 Nice job! How do I order 'em? Visit the Team Pixelboy web site, and then contact me via the e-mail address that you will find there. I'll be spending most of today and tomorrow processing orders, so I won't be around here much during this time. Thanks again, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Truly sad to see potential projects dissappear. Maybe you could rename them to INSPIRATION FOR PROGRAMMERS That way they still exist as ideas if any programmers want to take up the cause and program them. As you can see I really liked your pipe dream projects But on the other side can't wait to get all the games!!!! Thanks for all the hard work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RelliK111 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Got my email Thanks and I can't wait to get these games Thanks for the codes I will try them out today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 E-mail sent for all 6 titles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Email sent for all 6 as well! Congrats again Luc on another Team Pixelboy Colecovision Christmas Extravaganza! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ten-four Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Replied via e-mail Thanks for the codes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 I had the chance to meet Luc 2 weeks ago and I got my 6 Team Pixelboy newest releases! Superb works (as usual) and those 6 games rocks! I do really enjoy the games! Congrats Luc! ... and I already can't wait for the next xmast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Payment sent for the Ninja Princess, Star force, and Konami ping pong. the other 3 are in Layaway!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Congrats Pixelboy on the 6 pack of cart releases! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ten-four Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Hi Luc. Payment has been sent today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Hi Luc. Payment has been sent today. Payment confirmed, and your package is ready to go. I will drop it off at the post office tomorrow morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Look what was waiting for me when I got home from work. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 All 6 games were waiting for me on my doorstep as well today What an awesome surprise. I am just pissed I already made plans to go out tonight instead of staying home to try these games out Thanks for the great speedy service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Got mine today too Luc, the boxes look phenomenal! Thanks again, look forward to playing these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 My "Six-Pack" of Team PixelBoy joy also arrived today in great shape. I can't begin to explain how impressed I am with each release (box, manual, cart) as well as the very well packaged box and SUPER fast shipping. :thumbsup: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBrian Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 we should nickname you speedy (gonzalez), you the man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I got my 6 pack today as well. Well packed. Everything looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Man, you guys are lucky. Mine started their trip on 12/17 and the current status is: International shipment has arrived in a foreign country And I paid for expedited shipping. I had hoped to have them last year, but I'm pretty sure I will see them some time this year:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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