Hey everyone, just as the titles states.  This thread will be for award announcements and also suggestions for awards the community would like to see.  I'll be working with NA mods MrClutch, Ookii risu and SA mod acomicbookguyc on adding a few more awards to the site.


Q & A: 

Question:  I qualify for an award, so how do I get it added? 

Answer:
If you qualify for an "Game Series" award, post a picture in this thread:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&...

If you qualify for a "Kiosk Award" see this thread:  http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&...

If you qualify for any other award, pm a mod.  A list of mods and an extended list of awards can be found here:  http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&am...


Question #2:  I have an idea for an award, so where do we go from here? 

Answer:  Great, you're in the right place.  Post your suggestion in this thread.  We'll take a look at it and see if it's a good fit into our current awards.  Please note that some awards might be a good fit for the site and some might not be, please don't take it personal if your award suggestion does not end up being implemented into the site.  We are working on a time schedule for when new awards will be added.  It may end up being something like four awards once every four months. 


Question #3:  I have an idea for the "Game Series" award, post that here?

Answer:  Yep, post your Game Series idea here.  Keep in mind these two things.   First, is it a series that you believe many other NA members would go for, nothing too obscure.  Second, does it have close to 10 unique games in the series or more?   


Question #4:  So what awards currently exist?

Answer:  Here are our current awards separated in categories:


Complete System Sets
- NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Gameboy, Atari, Genesis, Playstation, ect...

Complete Series Sets
- Adventure Island
- Bomberman
- Castlevania
- Contra
- Crash Bandicoot
- Donkey Kong
- Dragon Quest
- Earthbound
- F-Zero
- Final Fight
- Final Fantasy
- Fire Emblem
- Gradius
- GTA
- Halo
- Harvest Moon
- Kirby
- Mario
- Mario Kart
- Mario Party
- Megaman
- Metal Gear
- Metroid
- Mortal Kombat
- Ninja Gaiden
- Phantasy Star
- Pokemon
- Resident Evil
- Shinning Force
- Silent Hill
- Simpsons
- Sonic
- Star Fox
- Street Fighter
- Tales of...
- Tetris
- TNMT
- Tomb Raider
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater
- Wario
- Yoshi
- Zelda
- Nintendo Consoles Award
- Sega Consoles Award
- Sega Gamer Award

Other Sets
- Guides 100+
- Homebrew 25+
- Import 25+
- Pirates 25+
- Accessories 100+
- PS1 Longbox set
- Nintendo Power set
- Black Box CIB set
- GBA Classic CIB set
- E-reader set  (with subsets)
- Fun Club set
- Unlicensed set
- Retrozone X-Mas Set
- N64 Funtastic Set
- VGA 5+

Community
- Artist
- Beta Tester
- Game Releaser
- Homebrewer
- Musician
- Rom Dumper
- Uploader
- Writer  

Campout
- Attendee (many years)
- Campout Champ
- Special Shower
- Streaker

Donation
- Childs Play
- Mike Tyson
- NA Server

Special Cart/Item
- NES
   - Stadium Events
   - Garage Cart
   - Myraid 6-1
   - NWC Grey
   - NWC Gold
   - Racermate (Must be Complete)
- SNES
   - Exertainment Mountain Bike/Speed Racer
- N64
   - Clayfighter: Sculptors Cut (Must be CIB)
- Gameboy  
   - IZEK
- Other
   - Arcade Cabinet
   - Kiosk
   - Hands Free Controller
   - M82 Demo Unit
   - MAME Cabinet
   - Proto
   - Pinball
   - Play Choice 10
   - Sharp TV
   - Test cart
   - Test Station

Participant
- Blockbuster World Champion Participant
- DK County Compitition Participant
- Game Contest (Nintnedoage)
- NESDEV Competition Competitor
- NWC Participant
- Star Fox Super Weekend Competition Participant
- Twin Galaxy Participant
- Ultimate Frogger Champion

Random
- Boat
- Facebook
- Gamer Tattoo
- Jive Turkey
- Nintendoage T-Shirt
- Nintendo Platinum
- PI
- Speed Demo Archive Record
- Twin Galaxy Record Holder
- Custom Console

That's it, thanks everyone for taking a look and keep an eye on this thread for future award announcements.   

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****I'm happy to announce NEW AWARDS!  Added 4/9/15****


New awards have arrived!   

The following are new awards that will be implemented into the site. 


New Game Series awards:


Series:  Tales of… Series
Icon:  
Requirements:  Have the following games, plus 5 extras. 
Reason:  Voted by the community on 2/14/15

 

Game	Systems	Year
Tales of Destiny	PS1	1998
Tales of Eternia	PSP	2001
Tales of Symphonia	NGC	2003
Tales of Phantasia	GBA	2006
Tales of Legendia	PS2	2006
Tales of the Abyss	PS2	2006
Tales of the World:  Radiant Mythology	PSP	2007
Tales of Vesperia	X360	2008
Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World	Wii	2008
Tales of Graces	PS3	2012
Tales of Xillia	PS3	2013
Tales of Hearts	VITA	2014

 
 
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Series:  Yoshi Series
Icon:   
Requirements:  Have the following games, plus 5 extras. 
Reason:  Voted by the community on 2/10/15

 

Game	Systems	Year
Yoshi	NES, GB	1992
Yoshi Cookie	NES, GB, SNES	1993
Yoshi Safari	SNES	1993
SMW 2:  Yoshi's Island	SNES	1995
Yoshi Story	N64	1998
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy	GBA	2005
Yoshi Touch and Go	DS	2005
Yoshi's Island DS	DS	2006
Yoshi's New Island	3DS	2014
Yoshi's Woolly World *Not needed until release	WII U	2015

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Series:  Fire Emblem
Icon:  
Requirements:  Have the following games, plus 5 extras.
Reason:  Voted by the community on 2/05/15

 

Game	Systems	Year
Fire Emblem	GBA	2003
Fire Emblem:  The Sacred Stones	GBA	2004
Fire Emblem:  Path of Radiance	NGC	2005
Fire Emblem:  Radiant Dawn	WII	2007
Fire Emblem:  Shadow Dragon	DS	2009
Fire Emblem:  Awakening	3DS	2013
Fire Emblem:  If  *Not needed until release	3DS	2015

 


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Name:  N64 Funtastic Set Award
Icon:  
Requirements:  Have all nine N64 system color variants.
Reason:  If you are a N64 system fanatic and have all the system color variants, then you deserve and award.  Post a pic here:  http://nintendoage.com/forum/mess... PM a mod to get this award added to your account.  

Systems required for the award:

N64 Systems:

Black
Fire Orange
Grape Purple
Ice Blue
Jungle Green
Smoke Grey
Watermelon Red
Gold
Pokemon (Pika-CHU) edition.





Name:  “VGA +5” Award
Icon:  
Requirements:  Own 5 or more VGA games. 
Reason:  Love minty mint sealed games?  Want to have them protected and graded?  Have five or more?  Then congrats, you qualify for this award! 




Name:  Custom Console Award 
Icon:   
Requirements:  Own a custom or modified console. 
Reason:  Your ride has been pimped.  Blinged out system with a custom paint job, modified your system with high quality a/v outs or region free, ect.  Then you qualify for this award.  Feel free to show it off in this thread:  http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&...   but also PM a mod for the award. 



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Note:  Everything above could change very slightly due to errors.  Hopefully there’s none of that, but just a heads up. 


That’s if for this round.  Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  We’ll be looking at those for future awards.  I appreciate the community voting on the Game Series awards.  I hope to do it again next time.  Thanks and keep the suggestions for future stuff coming.  

Also.... Sega Age, there will be a “Game Series Award” thread over on Segaage.  So if you can post pictures over there as well.  Click here for that:  http://segaage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=42&thread...  

Thanks guys/gals!

I know there is one for the Sharp TV but what about for the GX TV? Its cooler!!

And I have a question. What is a Garage cart exactly? Just a homebrew of sorts or something else?

Garage cart is one of the first homebrew carts released for the NES, it was done by Memblers.

Ahh interesting. I dont really know much about repros/homebrew cause thats not really common around here where Im at. Is it a good game or just not really common?

Here's more information on the Garage cart

http://www.nesworld.com/rarity_ga...

Cool, thanks for the info!

"- Speed Demo Archive Record
- Twin Galaxy Record Holder"

Really? We have these not but one for TASVideos? That's dumb, can we add one? I've made a bunch of TASes and I'd love to have it shown on my profile.

Nintendo Hands Free Controller should be worthy of an award.

Quick suggestion: Treasure collection.

I know you people might not agree with me on this one since it's not exactly a franchise, but I personally feel like each Treasure game has their own feel and gameplay, despite rarely forming series that go over 2 games (which in my eyes makes them somewhat unique). I'm sure I'm not the only one either as some of their retro titles are incredibly sought after (alien soldier, radiant silvergun etc.)
The games they've developed (or co-developed, which I don't think counts) are listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trea...

Also...I'm collecting them at the moment

Other ideas along the same lines are HAL laboratory, Sonic Team and maybe even Rare beforetheygotterrible But the difference between these and Treasure is that Treasure haven't had any long running series they could rely on.

THINK ABOUT IT

How about a TMNT series award?

Even though I don't own them anymore, I think there should be an award for the StarFox Super Weekend and Donkey Kong Country Competition carts.

Ive been meaning to ask someone if we can have one for owning all the wisdom tree carts (nes, snes, genesis, and gameboy)... Im getting close to finishing out the set!

How about original Nintendo Fun Club member?

I've been trying to craft together either a rental set or blockbuster set. Once I pin down what I think would get a consensus agreement on what the set would be I'll put forth a more "complete" suggestion for it.

I would like a Halo Series Award. There are a ton of extras you can find for this series including Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary which is a HD remake of the original Halo.


Halo: Combat Evolved 2001
Halo 2 2004
Halo 3 2007
Halo Wars 2009
Halo 3: ODST 2009
Halo Reach 2010
Halo 4 2012

I know i mentioned it before but a star wars series award would be epic way more than 10 games there

I think a halo award is like the antithesis of what a nintendo age award should be....

Im glad someone else mentioned it (I didnt want to be biased cause I hate halo games).

Still waiting for a Wizardry series award...hint hint nudge nudge

^^ What he said!! ^^ I know a few of us are dying for this icon. The rarest Nintendo produced accessory and we dont even have an icon. Hell, theres an icon for the Singer IZEK for GBC. Who cares about that thing??



I know its a long shot but how about a Madden series icon? Well over 10 titles and its the greatest selling Sports franchise of all time. I might have a few of them laying around...

TMNT, Simpsons, Halo & Madden should all have series awards. These and many others are either longer running and/or more popular than many of the games that already have awards (Resident Evil, Shining Force, Tomb Raider, etc.)

How so? We have awards for Crash Bandicoot, GTA, Shining Force and Tomb Raider who didn't even start on a Nintendo console. Nintendo Age has expanded from just being a "Nintendo" forum. There are hundreds of forum members who collect for other consoles as well. According to the rules my suggestion follows right into place to receive an award. 

i was thinking a complete racermate set should have one since you don't see all the pieces together very often.

my suggestions from the other thread:

visited nintendo kyoto hq
visited nintendo world store nyc
visited nintendo of america

I don't nessarily agree with those either.  I can sort of understand when they do have at least one game on a nintendo platform, but I'd prefer them to be known more as nintendo platform franchises.  But halo has none at all unless I'm mistaken. Just seems wrong to me. That's just an opinion. It wouldn't really bother me if it did get an icon.