deater78 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 (edited) so I made another game of sorts, this one is based on an ancient screenshot the Homestar Runner people made that was a parody of the E.T. game but with their own character, The Cheat. You can skip the so-so title music and get into the gameplay. There's a webpage for it here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/cheat/ with a link to the ROM (8k) and source code Directions: you are The Cheat. Bubs (the orange guy) in the concession stand wants 12 Cheatcakes (little yellow boxes). You can only carry 4 at a time. Find them and bring them back to him. Don't get caught by strongbad (red guy) or he will steal your cakes and send you back to your house. If you fall in a pit, use the joystick button to levitate out. Also watch out for grumblecakes (black boxes) as too many of those are bad for you. Edited March 31, 2023 by deater78 update to note game is "finished" 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevKelley Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 I love the scenery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deater78 Posted March 31, 2023 Author Share Posted March 31, 2023 OK, even though this was mostly meant as a parody, I've fixed things up so now it is actually a full "game" that you can win or lose. Also added some extra scenes. I'm going to declare this done for now, although there's about 80 bytes free (on the 8k ROM) that are taunting me wanting some extra content 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 ZeroPage Homebrew is playing C.H.E.A.T. on tomorrow's ZPH stream LIVE on Twitch, hope you can join us! Tue May 16, 2023 | LIVE @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 1AM GMT+1Day WATCH LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/WATCH LATER: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Frazzled (2023 WIP | 2600) by David Marli @DaveM Paul's HappyBird (2023 | 2600) by Bruno Steux @bsteux C.H.E.A.T. (2023 WIP | 2600) by Vince Weaver @deater78 Kovi Kovi (2023 WIP | 2600) by Mashdy Games / Marco Johannes @MarcoJ (WATCH AT 1080P60 FOR BEST QUALITY) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deater78 Posted June 22 Author Share Posted June 22 I got around to making a custom cartridge of this one, was keeping up with the E.T. parody theme. The homestar runner team actually knows about this and offered to make some custom cartridge art too, so there might be something even better at some point. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Manic Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 I would love to have a custom cart of this and play it on 2600+ if it does indeed run on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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