homebrews

[Mitch]

I'm curious, is there a reason why some homebrews are included and not others or is it that no one has submitted the games for inclusion?
If it's the latter then I can provide a list of 7800 games. :)

Mitch

[Apollo]

What?

[Sniderman]

What homebrews are listed Mitch? Toss out a few examples.

[Mitch]

What homebrews are listed Mitch? Toss out a few examples.

Well, for the 7800, currently there is listed the monitor cart and the high score cart. Which in a way is somewhat amusing since I wouldn't classify either as homebrews. The high score cart is a proto reproduction and the monitor cart I consider a standard release since it was released back in the day and was authorized by Atari. For 7800 homebrews I would include stuff like Beef Drop and Combat 1990.

Mitch

[Sniderman]

Hmmm... Personally, I wouldn't include ANY homebrews in the rarity guide. Al over at AA once justified why the AA rarity guide didn't place a rarity value on homebrews. He said:

I'm not really sure I want to add every homebrew game to the database in every iteration a game has been released in. Much less assign a rarity value to games that were either produced in a very limited number or are no longer being produced. It would be easy to clutter the rarity guide in such fashion. ... Say, for instance, "SCSIcide", which has seen:

- Original CGE 2001 SCSIcide release (50 copies?)
- General release by Hozer
- PhillyClassic 3 Release
- General release by AtariAge
- Ultra SCSIcide (which I would list as a separate game, but still link from the normal SCSIcide entry).

There's also the point someone else made that, if some homebrewer made a game and only made 2 copies, that game would officially become the rarest game in the world. "Manufactured rarity/value" is almost as bad. More trouble than it's worth to try to give a rarity to a homebrew and every possible variation it's been released in. And what if the game re-enters production? Oy.

[vintagegamecrazy]

I think they need to stay and be updated, they are games and I want to know what is out there so I can play and collect them, if they are in the guide it helps me do that. I agree that rarity is sketchy though.

[Mitch]

There are quite a few 2600 titles in there right now which is why I was asking. Though I am more interested in 7800 titles at the moment.

Mitch