[Albert]

Winner Announced! Congratulations David Vazquez!

After deliberating over all the wonderful entries submitted to the Medieval Mayhem Label Contest, author Darrell Spice Jr. has selected an entry from David Vazquez as the winning label. David Vazquez's second submission, pictured below, will be the artwork that graces the Medieval Mayhem label as well as the manual. For winning the contest, David will receive a $50 gift certificate in the AtariAge Store, as well as a copy of Medieval Mayhem featuring his winning design. Medieval Mayhem will be available in the AtariAge Store beginning December 1st! Congratulations to David Vazquez and to all the participants who took the time to enter the contest and show off their talents! You can view all the contest entries here.



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Original contest announcement below:

Fans of the popular four-player Atari 2600 game Warlords (itself based on an arcade game of the same name) will be happy to learn that 2600 enthusiast Darrell Spice Jr. is nearly finished with Medieval Mayhem, an updated take on Warlords. While the original version from Atari is still a blast to play, Medieval Mayhem adds arcade features such as the launch dragon, multiple fireballs and a level of polish missing from the original 2600 release. It also includes a menu to select options before starting the game.

AtariAge and Darrell Spice Jr. are sponsoring a contest to create original artwork for Medieval MayhemThis label artwork will appear on all copies of Medieval Mayhem, which will be available through the AtariAge Store. This artwork will also be featured on the cover of the manual created for Medieval Mayhem. The winner of the contest will receive a copy of Medieval Mayhem in cartridge form, featuring their winning label design. The winner will also receive a $50 gift certificate in the AtariAge Store. The contest will run until 11:59pm (CST), Sunday, November 12th, 2006. To learn how to enter, please visit the Medieval Mayhem Label Contest page!

[rolenta]

Is this a hack or a completely new game?

[Albert]

rolenta, on Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:30 PM, said:

Is this a hack or a completely new game?

Originally Darrell started hacking Warlods, but then decided to start from scratch so there would be no issues with having cartridges made. So Medieval Mayhem is a completely new game.

..Al

[holygrailvideogames.com]

Can I pre-buy one of these? This looks like a title that I would like to buy.

This post has been edited by mcgrail0007: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:33 PM

[espire8]

Ends Oct 29th? That's less than two weeks away! !
Sure am glad I found out about this contest tonight!

This post has been edited by espire8: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:25 AM

[Nathan Strum]

Yeah, it'd be nice if these contests could run three weeks instead. Two weeks isn't really much time.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Nathan Strum, on Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:12 AM, said:

Yeah, it'd be nice if these contests could run three weeks instead. Two weeks isn't really much time.

Maybe they just don't want you to automatically win again.

j/k

[Albert]

Nathan Strum, on Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:12 AM, said:

Yeah, it'd be nice if these contests could run three weeks instead. Two weeks isn't really much time.

I will extend the contest out another week to give people some extra time.

..Al

[Albert]

Okay, I've extended the contest by a week. The deadline is now 11:59pm, November 5th!

..Al

[Nathan Strum]

Cool - thanks!

[galaxy warrior]

cant wait to see some labels.

[SpiceWare]

I've seen a work-in-progress

[espire8]

SpiceWare, on Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:18 PM, said:

I've seen a work-in-progress

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This post has been edited by espire8: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:58 PM

[Goochman]

Holy Moly - what a great job - if Castle Crisis hadnt been released this would def be 'The' Warlords to get - I cant believe thats a 2600 screen!

[SpiceWare]

You aint seen nothing yet! Check my blog for what's happening to the castes

[espire8]

SpiceWare, on Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:16 PM, said:

You aint seen nothing yet! Check my blog for what's happening to the castes

Darrell, just a thought-- maybe the bottom wall issue will resolve if you bump the brick pattern 1 pixel so the the wall's outside edges in the ball's playfield will be smooth to avoid those irratic ball behaviors you described in your blog. Hope it helps.

[espire8]

galaxy warrior, on Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 AM, said:

cant wait to see some labels.

Me too! Well, the deadline is now two weeks away (could have been one week if not for Al's extention!). I thought to see a few entries posted in the contest page by now.
Guess everyone is using the time to work hard on their labels to surprize us with an entry at the closing hour.

[Albert]

espire8, on Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:22 AM, said:

galaxy warrior, on Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 AM, said:

cant wait to see some labels.

Me too! Well, the deadline is now two weeks away (could have been one week if not for Al's extention!). I thought to see a few entries posted in the contest page by now.
Guess everyone is using the time to work hard on their labels to surprize us with an entry at the closing hour.

Sorry, I wanted to get the labels up this weekend but have been so damn busy getting ready for the VGXPO this upcoming weekend. I'll endeavor to get the first entries I've received online tonight..

..Al

[espire8]

Albert, on Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:25 AM, said:

espire8, on Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:22 AM, said:

galaxy warrior, on Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:15 AM, said:

cant wait to see some labels.

Guess everyone is using the time to work hard on their labels to surprize us with an entry at the closing hour.

Sorry, I wanted to get the labels up this weekend but have been so damn busy getting ready for the VGXPO this upcoming weekend. I'll endeavor to get the first entries I've received online tonight..

..Al

Sounds great! Hopefully there will be a good handful of them submitted for us to view before the VGXPO weekend! Too bad I can't be there though.

[Shawn Sr.]

I'm REALLY excited to see the creative labels you folks have come up with for this one. Can't wait untill some are posted.

[Albert]

Shawn Sr., on Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:48 PM, said:

I'm REALLY excited to see the creative labels you folks have come up with for this one. Can't wait untill some are posted.

Unfortunately I did not have time to post the initial labels (I have several now) before I left for the VGXPO and the earliest I will be able to post them is next Wednesday. I will extend the contest by another week if necessary.

..Al

[Shawn Sr.]

Albert, on Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:10 PM, said:

Shawn Sr., on Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:48 PM, said:

I'm REALLY excited to see the creative labels you folks have come up with for this one. Can't wait untill some are posted.

Unfortunately I did not have time to post the initial labels (I have several now) before I left for the VGXPO and the earliest I will be able to post them is next Wednesday. I will extend the contest by another week if necessary.

..Al

Sounds good to me. The longer it is for the initial posting of the labels the more I'll ge tto see at once Have fun at the show Al be sure to take lots of pics!!

[MajikAly]

Wow this is such a neat idea!

[DaveD]

While everyone is waiting for the first batch of entries, or if you're looking for ideas, you might consider looking here:

http://www.atariage....isis/index.html

Kinda like deja vu, eh?

This post has been edited by DaveD: Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:32 PM

[SpiceWare]

Wow - I'm going to have a tough time deciding