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..which is exactly why I mentioned it already

Reading back is not my hobby. I got more important things to do right now ;P

Can I nominate Sunrise then? Or is it already nominated wolf_?

it is

for the other hueys who don't like reading back, here's the nominees sofar, briefly, no reasons:


space manbow
end of mccm
ocm
mrc
sunrise
bazix/controverse
wammes witkop
first sd-snatcher english patch
the genic picturedisk dynasty
FST
bandwagon
mailinglists
unknown reality
philips quiting msx
fmsx
cas cremers
CJS MSX emulator/Virtual MSX
sd-snatcher
aleste 2
designer & designer+
lightning (demo)
symbos (disqualified by that evil snout ^_^)
nemesis1
microcabin's snaredrum
microcabin's music in general
moonblaster

(^_^( "and we shall ignore t00b"

msxdev05
f1 spirit
openmsx
RBM MSX2(+)/FM-PAC club
bluemsx
MSX Computer Magazine becoming MSX/MS-DOS Computer Magazine at issue #22
psycho world
the screensplit
moonsound
usas
matra (also disqualified by that big evil )
metal gear 2
FUD
msx unleashed (demo)
Peter van Overbeek/PTC Print
fm-pac
konami
Ademir Carchano
MCM and MCM merging into MCCM
1983 December KONAMI entered the MSX game business. [ possibly a double nom.]
zandvoort
Jeroen Wouda from Space.Cweb.nl (related to the how/why of unicorn's presence in the scene)
gamereader
SRM+special
futuredisk

and sorted on category, which is a bit tricky for some nominees (e.g. sunrise):

(edit: changed nemesis2 into f1 spirit, seems f1 spirit is really the first scc game, it also means you can nominate nemesis2 again for any other reason (e.g. you think it's a great game, you like green men or whatever))

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 2
psycho world

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

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.])



hardware/manufacturors/producers:

philips quiting msx
sunrise
ocm
gamereader
fm-pac
moonsound

..and therefor I'll add:

Nom: sunrise magazine+special
Why: most popular diskmagazine

and

Nom: futuredisk
Why: prolly the most popular diskmagazine after SRM

@Wolf_: Are you bored? Don't you have a game (gfx, music) to do?

And it's perhaps interesting to be strict about the context from now on. Why?
If I'd nominate the tilburg fair, then everyone understands.. being the biggest MSX fair and such. But I could also nominate the tilburg organisation, twice, first for organizing the great fair, but secondly for the way they dropped the MSX-fair some while ago.

So, if there's the nominee 'zandvoort', then you could infact think about nominating the actual fairs, but also the organisation (e.g. how they worked with the bussum fair after some evil bloke leveled the Pelikaanhal)

Sunrise is another one to count with.. they made diskmagazines, make software & hardware, and even did scenethings with their picturedisks. Those are 4 potential nominees rather than only 1..! And perhaps one of those is more popular than another, resulting in (prolly) more fair voting when the votingtime is there..

Now, I don't know if it's all very important to split things this way, but I think it is.. try keeping it in mind when nominating!

huey: as you can see, I wear a spider on me head since yesterday-evening.. so uhm.. need to keep doing things eh (otherwise I won't get a share of all the truckloads o' money MRC makes every week ^_^)

I wanted to go but had nothing to show yet
It has been years since my last fair. (The one where mth released his Metal Gear 2 translation).

Too bad there is no Doetinchem fair anymore. It's practicly next door now. I used to travel 4-5 hours to get there in the old days

Try this one in about 2 months (+ a week) from now.. seems prodatron will give an extensive SymbOS demo there!

But before the topic goes everywhere, let's stick to the nominating from now!

Wolf_! you forgot my Metal gear 1 nominee!

Nom: MCM/MCCM
Why: Although mentioned before, the keyrole this magazine played in spreading knowledge on MSX and increasing activity of the MSX community has not yet been given the attention it deserves.

Nom: Takeru
Why: MSX software vending machines on the streets of Japan. Does it get any cooler than that? Yes! Because thanks to Flying Bytes they started distributing European releases as well, massively increasing the audience for European develoeprs

Nom: Compile
Why: Brought some amazing releases (like the already mentioned Aleste 2), introduced the concept of Disk magazines and supported MSX for a very, very, very long time

Nom: MSX Club Gouda
Why: Brought new MSX hardware to the Dutch MSX community on a large scale. I don't think we would have had so many MSX turboRs without them