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6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards: Best Atari 2600 Homebrew (Port)

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  1. 1. 6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards: Best Atari 2600 Homebrew (Port)

    • Elevator Agent
      56
    • Lucky Chase
      9
    • Myst
      3
    • Paul's HappyBird
      1
    • Turbo Arcade
      35
    • Xanthiom 2600
      9

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IMPORTANT -> READ VOTING GUIDE BEFORE VOTING <- IMPORTANT

 

FULL CATEGORY CREDITS:

  • Elevator Agent (64K Port) by Champ Games / John Champeau @johnnywc (Coding & Design), Nathan Strum @Nathan Strum (Art & Graphics, Packaging), Pat Brady @Pat Brady (Music & Sounds)

  • Lucky Chase (32K Port) by Carlos Centeno @RaymanC

  • Myst (16K Port) by Vince Weaver @deater78

  • Paul's HappyBird (16K Port) by Bruno Steux @bsteux

  • Turbo Arcade (120K Port) by Champ Games / John Champeau @johnnywc (Coding & Design), Nathan Strum @Nathan Strum (Art & Graphics, Sound Effects, Packaging)

  • Xanthiom 2600 (64K Port) by MathanGames

 

6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards

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Welcome to the 6th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards, where YOU get to vote on your favourite homebrew games of 2023! The results of the Atari Homebrew Awards will be announced LIVE on the ZeroPage Homebrew's Twitch channel on Saturday February 24th, 2024 during a special broadcast. During the event we will be announcing the winners and runners up in each of the categories along with LIVE acceptance speeches from the winners, plus much, much more!!

 

Voting Begins: February 2, 2024 @ 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT

Voting Ends: February 18, 2024 @ 23:59:59 PT |  12AM PT | 3AM ET | 8AM GMT

Awards Show: February 24, 2024 @ 12PM PT | 3PM ET | 8PM GMT on the ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch Stream

 

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I feel that Xanthiom is an original game that just happens to have similarities with Etriodmay. It really feels like it's going for its own thing, so it's hard to compare to the otherwise very faithful ports.

 

Myst is amazing, but I feel I need to go back to the original to see what everything is, haha.

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Ports can sometimes be subjective but Xanthiom has so much in common with Metroid. It has some of the same enemies with the same enemy movement patterns, same look to the main character, same door you have to shoot through to get to the next area plus many more. If you sat someone down to play it and you didn't tell them what game it was they would immediately think Metroid.

 

- James

 

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mika15 Space Invader

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I know it is a hard task, for ZPH, for people that are nominating, and I know it’s now done and dusted for this year’s categories. Just sharing my opinion, maybe this will help in the future editions, maybe it won’t, most likely won’t.

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Just now, mika15 said:

I know it is a hard task, for ZPH, for people that are nominating, and I know it’s now done and dusted for this year’s categories. Just sharing my opinion, maybe this will help in the future editions, maybe it won’t, most likely won’t.

 

Believe me, there are endless debates about Port vs Original and where the line is, the opinion of the developer factors in as well. It occupies a lot of my time during the AHAs.

 

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35 minutes ago, mika15 said:

don’t get me wrong, I know it looks like I am nitpicking, but there is an original game in 2600 category that immediately feels even more like a port of something else.

Penult?  From the developer:

 

 

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3 minutes ago, splendidnut said:

Penult?  From the developer:

 

 

a) James was defining Xianthom by a player „immediately thinking metroid”, so I defined Penult by a player immediately thinking Ultima

 

b) Xianthom’s developer does describe a game as: 

Play the original Xanthiom as it would have been if released in 1981 for the Atari 2600! Play as Lieutenant Grisham on his first mission on Planet Coati 5!

Requires an Atari 2600 emulator to play.

 

does not say Metroid port either. Even if it „started as Metroid” clearly didn’t end up as Metroid. It’s metroidvania, for sure, but there is A TON of metroidvanias, for every platform imaginable.

 

 

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1 hour ago, mika15 said:

a) James was defining Xianthom by a player „immediately thinking metroid”, so I defined Penult by a player immediately thinking Ultima

Oh, ok.  I didn't realize that was the argument you were trying to make.  Thank you for clarifying.

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1 hour ago, mika15 said:

a) James was defining Xianthom by a player „immediately thinking metroid”, so I defined Penult by a player immediately thinking Ultima

For the record, James also thought that Penult should be categorized as a port, but I didn't feel it should, so since it was an edge case, he took my preferences into account. Also, Penult had been in the "original" category when it was nominated for best WIP, so that may have been a factor as well. 

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jgkspsx Quadrunner

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2 hours ago, mika15 said:

don’t get me wrong, I know it looks like I am nitpicking, but there is an original game in 2600 category that immediately feels even more like a port of something else.

There are two, in fact. The other one is even more direct. The source material for that one was not a VIDEO game, though.

 

I don't think it ultimately matters much - they're all great games! I just think it's funny.

 

 

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6 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Turbo Arcade final CG NTSC still crashes on the latest Stella, freshly downloaded.

Stella doesn't auto detect the correct cartridge type for Turbo Arcade. (It chooses 3F.) If you manually change the cartridge type to CDF in Options>Game Properties after you see the error, Stella will launch it correctly.

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