Reindeer Rescue has became a holiday tradition.

[sandmountainslim]

Reindeer Rescue!

I have played this every Christmas season It is a GREAT game but just like Jingle Bell Rock this time of year is the only time that I let myself enjoy it.

Anyone else enjoy it in a seasonal manner?

[godzillajoe]

I usually spend Christmas day playing only Christmas games. With appropriate frosty beverages of course. So I'll be trying to beat RR again and see how far I can get in Toyshop Trouble. And Endless Snow, which I got in the mail the other day will make its debut. Plus all the other ones from over the years. Sad that the yearly X-Mas game tradition kinda died out. I guess if you want something done, you have to do it yourself!

[+SpiceWare]

Sad that the yearly X-Mas game tradition kinda died out.

 

 

We tried.

[godzillajoe]

Damn, that will get released at some point though, right? Loved the first one.

[+SpiceWare]

At some point. There's a Melody shortage due to a bad component. batari's been manually removing the bad part and replacing it, but it's tedious work. A couple weeks ago he said he was going to order a new batch of boards to ease up his workload, but it would take a while for them to arrive from China.

[AtariBrian]

For Stay Frost 2 there is no in game music like in that video is there ?

[+Nathan Strum]

For Stay Frost 2 there is no in game music like in that video is there ?

The music in the video is the in-game music:

 

http://youtu.be/buf4rcS-S9c

Edited December 23, 2013 by Nathan Strum

[+SpiceWare]

For Stay Frost 2 there is no in game music like in that video is there ?

 

As Nathan says, that is the in-game music.

 

The music is created using DPC+, an updated version of DPC used for the music (and other things) in Pitfall II. The primary difference is DPC uses square waves while DPC+ lets you use custom 32 byte waveforms.

 

If you listen closely you might notice that the tempo of the music changes with the snowman's health - the smaller the snowman, the faster the tempo.

 

If you find the music to be annoying you can use the right difficulty switch to turn it off. With the music on the game can only play 1 sound effect at a time. With the music off it'll play 2 at a time.

[AtariBrian]

NIce touch , the music sounds great

[+SpiceWare]

Thanks! It sounds even better on real hardware. Emulation of TIA audio is real tricky, especially when the sound gets updated on almost every scanline.

 

I'll see about uploading a video recorded from my 2600 in the near future, though first I need to figure out a new video sharing site to use as I closed my YouTube account when Google's asshattery became too much to bear.

[godzillajoe]

2015 - Stay Frosty 3: The Frostening!

[+Nathan Strum]

Way ahead of you (I drew this a couple of years ago):

 

 

But at the rate the Holiday Carts are going, it'd be more likely 2019 2021.

 

Edit: corrected date.

Edited December 24, 2013 by Nathan Strum

[godzillajoe]

Snowman with a gun. Pre-order!

[+Nathan Strum]

It was just for fun - there are no plans for a real game.