[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!

Qwertyuiop, a MobyGames contributor whose nickname is so easy to type, has scored 10,000 contribution points and also become the new 50th all-time most prolific contributor. Now all the top 50 contributors have 10,000 points or more, which is very impressive, to say the least. I remember the joy of becoming the 25th all-time contributor in 2001, scoring the unbelievable 1,600 points... Two years later, when the ladder was expanded to 50, you could become a top contributor with a mere 900 points...

Also, in related news, Macs Black became the 9th person in MobyGames' history to amass 50,000 points. Even more remarkable is that he achieved this in only two and a half years since joining the site - truly an outstanding feat!