There are two "homebrew" games in my collection. One is on a disc which my wife bought from a middle schooler at work. He was interested in making games as a career and had been making games on one of those do-it-yourself game editors. The kid wanted to upgrade from a free editor/game maker to a paid one, so he was trying to sell a few games he made. My wife bought one of the games for $5 I think. It is just a disc but he wrote out the name of his game and some other stuff on it. This was several years ago now. I always hoped he did go into that line of work.
The other game, which I hesitate to call a homebrew, is Halo 2600 for the Atari 2600.
The difference in production value of these two games has, for a long time now, had me kicking around the idea of starting a thread so we could talk about "what is a homebrew game? and do we need to use a different word when talking about games on the level of Halo 2600?"
One of the podcasts I listen to, Retro Gaming Roundup, is going to release an Atari game shortly. I am definitely getting in on that.
I just checked out Halo 2600. It is pretty cool, but both of these are what good collecting is about, good stories.
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