any chance on reproducing the 16 bit xmas 2012?

No, because that would make collectors butthurt. Plus it was already a reissue. Nevermind the bad audio problems. Mine is Armageddon edition, wua-ha-ha...

Bad audio in 2012 edition:

Nope, not willing to devalue those who supported it.  That is why none of the previous years NES carts have been rereleased either.  

8-bit Xmas 2009 got reissued in 16-bit format, albeit with glitched audio. How about a multicart?

Just release a five pack multicart of 8-bit Xmas from 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, sans the blinky lights?

After all, AtariAge is still selling Stella's Stocking, which came out in 2007. I bought mine in May last year:
http://atariage.com/store/index.p...

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If that didn't happen there wouldn't have been an SNES cart that year either!

That's called a PowerPak  

Brian, We need a Powerpak with BLINKY lights! Just sayin

If I get this one, I'm going to have to spend a good chunk of money to get the previous releases...

Hell yeah! Christmas edition!!

Where would you put the blinky lights? The current PowerPak is filled in solid. Maybe it has room for a single red blinking LED but not much more than that.

^your sarcasm sensor must be broken

Is it possible to have a " - " in your message? I'd like for it to say " - 2013" at the end.
Or is it only letters, numbers and punctuations?

- counts as simple punctuation so its good!

My first home brew will be purchased tomorrow, really excited to have something different in my collection.

Most of the generic message carts will be shipping tomorrow! USPS guy is going to hate me...

No prototypes for sale this year?

If I want to order 2 carts with two different messages, how should I proceed?

Just add them to you shopping cart one at a time.

I tried that, but it would just overwrite the other one I just put in my cart.

No worries, I would just write an email to: [email protected]

They may take a day or two to get back to you (this is their busy season), just be patient and I'm confident they'll take care of your request.

I downloaded the rom and played it with the powerpak on my PAL (slower sound) nes.
8 bit Xmas 2013 is a great galaga clone and very addictive.
Made a fast gameplay video . (i think a lot of people want to see this game in action so enjoy.)

Mine shipped today! Whooo!

Yeah, I played the download demo briefly in PC emulator and I'm like this game is awesome!!! The first stage looks like a boring Space Invaders clone but from there it just gets awesomer with every level. Instabuy! I'm currently waiting until the cart arrives to try and see how good i am at it when using it on real hardware. I mean sure I could have used a PowerPak, but the blinky lights are too awesome! This one's not going in my toaster: I'll be playing it on my AV Famicom for maximum blinky lights awesomeness! I have a front-facing cartrige adapter that actually puts the NES label forward instead of backward so I can play it as intended.

Quick question: What does the "christmas present" powerup do and how do I collect it? Am i supposed to "shoot" it or "touch" it with my sleigh?

Anybody have a Game Genie code for infinite lives? I'd like to see how many levels this thing has before it repeats or ends. Galaga is a vanilla NROM game and only has a few levels but this baby is 128k so I assume it's literally stuffed with tons of stages!

After playing this game for a few weeks now, I can only get to level 12, but I have confirmed that level 22 does exist. Maybe you should ask MOG and see how far he has gotten over time

Everybody knows Mog goes all the way.

22+ levels? That's nice. I really shouldn't compare it to Galaga, but I used a "infinite lives" game genie once and beyond a certain point it stopped getting faster and just looped the same 16 stages over and over again. I either rolled over the score counter or made it to level 99 and after a few hours slogging away at it I got bored so I turned it off. That was ten years ago so I forgot exactly what happened but there wasn't any type of kill screen. It would be kind of ironic if there was a game-busting bug that occured at some higher level beyond what any of the beta testers could reach. I am wondering though if there's an actual ending or if the stages begin to loop at some point.

I so need to learn how to debug game ROMs and develop my own Game Genie codes as I wouldn't mind seeing how far the game progresses.

From what I've seen so far, the Xmas 2013 cart is such an excellent playing game that it really needs to be reskinned after the holidays are over and released as a permanent homebrew staple. Aside from the title screen, music, the space ship being shaped like a sleigh, and the powerup looking like a Christmas gift (actually they could keep the gift graphic as an homage to it's roots), it feels and plays like it's the most awesome single screen space shooter I've ever had the privlege of playing. Had this been released on the NES/Famicom back in the day, I could have seen it either becoming a cult hit or a popular Famicom import.

Just sayin' the 2013 edition is such a good game that it's far more than just a novelty to drag out during the holidays. I could plug it in and play it any day of the year.