The Top MobyGames Contributor of 2009 is, for the first time, joyvalley from Germany. It is the first time since 2005 that the Top Year Contributor is not Sciere. Joyvalley is the second German contributor to have won this title (after Xoleras in 2004).

He also established a record for most points scored in one year, with 32,258 points.

2009 also saw several dramatic changes on the Top 50 All-Time Contributors ladder, including the veteran Unicorn Lynx becoming the second All-Time contributor, reaching the 70,000 points mark.

Unfortunately, the year 2009 also saw some regress. 8 Contributors have scored 10,000 points or more during this year - as opposed to 11 in 2008. The Nr. 50 contributor scored "only" 1937 points in 2009, compared to 1952 points in the previous year.

Generally, more changes were made to the site than during the preceding year, but none as important as adding the Browser platform in 2008. The new search engine is one of the most notable additions of 2009. However, it is still in testing stage, with bugs that haven't yet been fixed.

Hopefully the year 2010 will see increase in contributions, and, most importantly, addition of new platforms, that have been "waiting in the queue" for a very long time (such as Sharp X68000 and FM Towns).

The last year of the first decade of the third millennium opens with a bang on our site: as of January 1st 2010, MobyGames has 50,019 games documented, with 27,760 unique game profiles.

What else is there to say but...

HURRAY! HURRAY! HURRAY!

[Actually this is one day early...but I have to work on New Years]

Congratulations!
To the new 2009 MobyUsers that have made it to ...
The 2009 Top Contributors Hall of Fame:

Patrick Bregger German member since Apr 04, 2009 with 13517 points;
Charly2.0 German member since Apr 17, 2009 with 13128 points;
Duduqaz Brazilian member since Mar 12, 2009 with 4577 points;
Mok Polish member since Apr 03, 2009 with 1964 points;
comper United States member since Apr 19, 2009 with 1911 points.

The MG 2009 Hall of Fame consist of:

13 Americans (+1);
7 Germans (-1);
4 Russians (+1);
4 Swedes (-1);
3 Brazilians (0);
3 Belgians (+1);
3 Canadians (+1);
2 Dutch (0);
2 Poles (0);
1 Australian (0);
1 French (+1);
1 Greek (0);
1 Israeli (0);
1 Romanian (+1)
1 Spaniard (+1);
1 Ukrainian (0)
1 Worldwide (+1);
And there's Mat who is now claiming he's Japanese (+1).

United Kingdom and Greece have been demoted from the 2009 list.

Top #1 Game Contributors 2009:

New Game Entries: Patrick Bregger (new member) submitted 570 games and their descriptions (335 in by Big John WV in 2008);
New Game Credits: Sicarius submitted 92 credits entries (117 in 2008);
New Game Cover Art: joyvalley submitted 5587 cover art entries (3970 in 2008);
New Screenshots: Macs Black submitted 9509 screenshots (4550 in 2008);
New Reviews: NeoJ (new member) submitted reviews 47 (39 by vicrabb in 2008).

Sorry, can't seem to find the stamina to update the complete list. Must be an aging thing. :p Hope someone else can complete it.

Have a lovely New Year 2010.

Within the last days of 2009 we're able to congratulate Sweden's top Moby contributor Kabushi for breaking the 50,000 contribution points and also Ben K for reaching the 20k milestone. Congratulations to both of you - and keep on the great work! :)

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Intellivision. Developed by Mattel as direct competition to the Atari 2600, the Intellivision was released in few department stores in Fresno, California in 1979, and was launched globally the following year. The system was launched at a price of $300, and was packed in with Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack. It was the first online console with downloadable games that could be bought through Play Cable. Intellivision went head to head with Atari until the crash of 1983. After the crash, a new company was formed called INTV Corp. to sell the Intellivision and develop new games for it. But the steam eventually ran out, and INTV Corp. closed its doors in 1991. This makes the Intellivision the only console to survive the entire decade of the 1980s. After the closing, Keith Robinson, a former programmer for the Intellivision, founded Intellivision Productions. The new company released many of the old Intellivision games for the PC and modern consoles. Thirty years later, Intellivision still lives on. Happy thirtieth anniversary Intellivision!