Nom: Bombaman (and Team Bomba)
Why: For continuing development on the game, throughout the most silent years in the history of MSX, and for releasing it in a period that marked the end of the silent era.

Nom: Philips MSX CD-ROM interface
Why: Although it never hit the market (did it?) it gave the MSX a historical role in the history of computing on the whole.

Loooks like this megapoll will be very amazing ... Just by reading Wolf's list and the more recent additions, we can say that it will be a mega-mega-poll

Btw, felicitations, Wolf for your promotion !

yeah, one needs to move on eh, if we were standing still we'd still be making MSX1 games..


( w00ps ^_^ )

Exported from MSX Café ! Belgian Quality guaranteed !

Nom: MSX Resource Center starting challenges
Why: Increased activity of the MSX community, lead to spectacular demos and new groups to be formed.

Yeah, wolf. . . I missed something on you getting a promotion? (while looking at yer sig, I'd say yer a mod these days? whot up)

It all happened after Bussum, tho for a very few ppl it was announced at Bussum while I was leaving the place. It's basically Latok's puppydoll's eyes that pulled me over the line.. ^_^ Also, a number of ppl leave/left their modship (chao5 for instance), to be replaced by others. Also I'll be managing something special, that'll prolly appear somewhere early 2007 orso. (you'll like it!)

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Nom: MSX Resource Center starting challenges Why: Increased activity of the MSX community, lead to spectacular demos and new groups to be formed.

Indeed a very good initiative. It's been a long time since the last demo challenge though. Maybe time for a new one soon.

*bump*

Some of these nominations sofar are hard to categorise, unless you start making tenths of categories ^_^

Anyway, mind the deadline for nominating.. perhaps you'll get ideas when you replace the word 'event' with the word 'landmark' .. what are the landmarks of MSX? Which MSX things should be put into the theorical 'MSX history book', or the 'MSX encyclopedia'?

games:

First SD-Snatcher english patch
Space Manbow
SD-Snatcher
Nemesis1
F1 Spirit
Microcabin's snaredrum
Microcabin's music in general
Aleste 2
Usas
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2
Psycho World
Bombaman

disk/paper-magazines:

end of MCCM
MSX Computer Magazine becoming MSX/MS-DOS Computer Magazine at issue #22
MCM and MCM merging into MCCM
SRM+special
Futuredisk
MCM/MCCM (for their key-role in the Dutch MSX community)

persons/organisations/websites/communities/scene/groups/software/companies

MSXdev05
Wammes Witkop
Bazix/controverse
MRC
mailinglists
Cas Cremers
Jeroen Wouda from Space.Cweb.nl (related to the how/why of unicorn's presence in the scene)
Zandvoort
Ademir Carchano
Peter van Overbeek/PTC Print
RBM MSX2(+)/FM-PAC club
The Genic Picturedisk dynasty
Bandwagon
Moonblaster
FST
Unknown Reality
Lightning (demo)
Designer & Designer+
MSX unleashed (demo)
scene-FUD
Openmsx
Bluemsx
fMSX
CJS MSX emulator/Virtual MSX
the screensplit
Konami ( / 1983 December KONAMI entered the MSX game business. [ possibly a double nom.])
Takeru
Compile
MSX club Gouda
ESE artists factory
Impact
ANMA
Karoshi Corp.
Team Bomba

hardware/manufacturors/producers:

Philips quiting msx
Sunrise
OCM
Gamereader
FM-Pac
Moonsound
turbo R
Obsonet
MSX disk drive
V9938
Philips MSX CD-ROM interface

misc:

KUN compiler
MSX-DOS
MSX in the Mir
ZX-Spectrum games ported to MSX
MRC starting challenges

Nomination: Sunrise Swiss developing the GFX9000
Why: taking MSX to the next level, graphics-wise. And it's just a great piece of hardware ^_^

Nomination: Nestor Soriano [NBASIC, Z380 soft, Obsonet hard&soft, etc]
Why: for releasing such great software as NestorBASIC, what really put me back into my seat, programming all day and night

Nominator: Yady
Nomination: Bussum 2006
Reason: Every fair that happens is a proof that MSX is still alive, so the most recent event is the most recent proof that MSX is not dead yet.

Nominator: openMSX team
Nomination: openMSX 1.0 release (date unknown)
Reason: It'll finally be perfect!

Nominator: Patrick van Arkel
Nomination: introduction diskdrive
Reason: No more shitting around with tapes.