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2001 Nominees
Abstract Productions
Aethersoft
Alipha
Alternate Reality Entertainment
Binary Magic
Bluefire Productions
Bulma Produktions
Darkness Ethereal
Dieter Marfurt
Hafiz Kassam
Hyper Anime Studios
JawsVSoft
Jeremy Hammond
Kaswoj Software
Marcade
Master Creating
Nekrophidius
Oren Bartal
PHAT Games
Piptol Productions
QBasic Central
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Sasha Vukelich
Skywaffle Productions
SV Reanimator
Tek
TMB
Tsugumo.cjb.net
Typosoft
V Games
Wisdomdude's Domain

The Official Statement:

In the year 2000, V Planet held the annual QB Gaming Gold Awards to determine through the votes of the QB gamers an end to the age-old question: which among all the QuickBasic games ever made and released on the Internet was the best QB game of all time? This question was answered unanimously, when Wetspot 2 by Enhanced Creations was voted the best first QB Gaming Gold Game of the Year.

A year has passed and the QB scene has changed since then. The expectations of QBRPGs now require even higher standards, not only settling for the quality of the graphics but for the length and breadth of the gameplay as well. In addition, QB expanded out of the old-school arcade genre and is now slowly seeping into categories, whether it be strategy games or platform games. Somewhere in this cosmetic goop of creativity lie videogame characters famous to QB gamers, videogame legends famous to the world, and a few new characters that have yet to make their presence known.

Now the year has come to a close, and with it the 2001 QB Gaming Gold Awards emphasize the present moreso than QB's past. Many new QB companies have arisen and created games that could hold their own against QB games past, while old programming veterans (many of them making their final QuickBasic game contributions before moving on to another language) competed for the playing time of Internet gamers around the world. With a total of twenty-nine QB games nominated, thirty-one programming teams represented, over 120 ballots received, and fourteen categories, the 2001 QB Gaming Gold Awards turned out being even bigger than the year before in nearly every aspect.

The only element in which the 2000 QB Gaming Gold Awards truly surpassed this year's awards is in the number of ballots received. Last year had over 150 ballots received, compared to 120 ballots received this year. This decrease in the number of received ballots was due to a failure in our balloting system, by a change of policy in Geocities (which hosted our ballots). An announcement was made through Gaming Golds sponsor V Planet that the QB Gaming Gold Awards voting would be forced to stop voting entirely to ensure no possibility of cheating and the highest degree of fairness.

However, of the 120+ ballots received, only 81 ballots were counted as "legal" votes. This number is similar to last year's number of legal votes (73). Illegal votes can and will always be thrown out for the following reasons:

(1) Incomplete filling of the ballot, in which a person voted for one or some but not all of the categories listed on the ballot.
(2) Voting more than once within a 24-hour period, in which only the earliest vote during that period is counted.

Be assured that all instances of such "cheating" were discovered after a very thorough investigation. So with only the remaining ballots to be counted, the winners of the 2001 QB Gaming Golds were decided. The results of the event are revealed and analyzed in this site.