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Retro Minigame Competition Revealed
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the 2003 Minigame Competition, a homebrew game contest "open to games for 'classic' 8-bit computers from the '80s", and featuring two categories, for games where the "...maximum size of the executable... is 1024 or 4096 bytes." Voting is currently open, although new games are still being submitted, and notable highlights include SCSIcide ("You are a disk drive read head, and your mission is to read the color-coded bits of data as they scream past you on 10 separate data tracks"), and JoustPong 1K for the Atari 2600 ("JoustPong is an old school Pong Deathmatch... but with a flap button!") -
How much Game Do You Get For 1k?
nafmo writes "In this day and age of quadruple-dvd games with amazingly big 3D worlds, one might think that the science of compact coding has been lost forever. Well, not so, ast the 2002 MiniGame competition proves. There are 62 games for 14 different vintage computer platforms, of which none take up more than 1024 bytes. The vote for this year's best minigame ends on 7th of October, so you'd better grab the votepack and start playing!"