From The Vault: 2004 Part One

Once again folks, we’re going to hand you over to the Tam of Toucanness for this round up.

Brace yourselves, there’s a lot coming your way again from the pyramid rummaging of Pyramania to Paul Cunningham’s rather lovely Defender homage, Alien Abduction.

Onwards fellow remake lovers, ever onwards!

Fred 2 – Pyramania – Retro platform lovelyness from RR Regular PeeJay
Critical Mass – Galaxian style shooter for Win,Mac,Linux
Puckman – A HUGE pacman maze with a tiny dot. Cool idea.
Neverball – Super Monkey Ball for Win,Mac,Linux
Smack’n'Bash – Wack-a-<insert animal here> flash game
Warning Forever – Its 5 years old, but this shooter still stands up
Gravity Strike – Multiplayer 2D-ship-shooter-gravity game
Apidya 2002 – Horz scrolling shooter from the Atari/Amiga days
Kajaani Kombat – Ramparts in space!

Boxindanga – Atari 2600 boxing remake
Shippy1984 – Galaga style shooter (Win/Mac/Linux)
Windstille – Turrican remake, still being developed.
Jetmen Revival – 2 player CTF game in a Thrust style world
NetWarsGL – Single player 3D space shooter
Moon Defense – Defend the moon from attack. Remake of Planetary Defense for the Atari
New Sky Diver – Land your parachutist on the platform in this 3D remake of the Atari game (Win/Linux)
Frozen Bubble – Online Java Bust-a-move game with 100 levels.
TVGiant – Run a TV station in this MadTV remake
N.O.M.A.D. – Another quality remake from The Caffeine Kid and Smila.
Vektor Space – Nice 3D multiplayer Light Cycles with steerable bikes (not just 90 degree turning)
Klax – Flash version of the arcade puzzler Klax
Vorton – Remake of the isometric arcade/puzzler Highway Encounter
Valhalla – Episode1 of the top-down Amiga adventure (pay for other episodes)

Cosmic Do! – Mr Do! with 40 levels and an end boss
Mr Do! Pinball – Pinball with the Mr Do characters
Spud Invaders – Space Invaders with potatoes
Lander Reloaded – Lunar Lander with nice graphics and extra effects (equipment, wind, …)
FreeOrion – The turn based space strategy game Master of Orion still being developed for Win/Mac/Linux
Diceies – Remake of NES Palamedes, a puzzle game with diceieses
Devils Sphere – Puzzle platformer remake of Spherical
Dogfight – 1 screen. 2 ships. 1 keyboard. 2 Players…Someone must die
Tornado – C64 Weather War remake. Destroy your opponents house with ASCII weather.
Attrax – Tetris-ey with magnetic balls in a circular board
Spies Demise – Remake of the C64 platformer Nifty Lifty
Javaders – Online Java Space Invaders

Mostly Harmless – Pre-Alpha of an Elite style game that never was
Dalek Chess – Another pre-alpha that never was
Ballistix, Blitz, Manic Miner, TV Pong and Space Invaders – A selection of remakes
Tinies Farter A flash looking Flash version of Lunar Lander
OpenTTD – An open source Transport Tycoon Deluxe still alive and active
Frozen Motion – An online or downloadable strategy puzzler similar to E-Motion
H.E.L.D. – An 85% complete remake of H.E.R.O.
Pyjamarama – Gorgeous graphical update of Pyjamarama (Win/Max/BeOS)
Transversion – Remake of the frantic grid based Spectrum shooter
Detonator – Arcade Puzzler Bombuzal done in Flash
Erik vs. Erik – Nice little online remake of Amidar.
Minor Bug – Another nice one from Erik vs. Erik creator. This ones a Lady Bug remake.
Japanese Arkanoid/Breakout – If you can’t find the download it’s here
Dog Daze – Claim more fire hydrants than your fellow canine in this 2600 remake
Castlevania Total Conversion – Castlevania, but as a 3D side scroller using the Quake engine
Specutrm 256 Colours – Banish colour clash and play 256 colour Spectrum games with this emulator
Cliff Hanger – Not the lazer disc, not the Stalone, but some other remake. Plus a load of other games
Gravytris – One of the better Teris style games
GBA Shadow of the Beast – The Amiga classic for the GBA
GBA Nebulus – Nebulus (aka Tower Topler) platform game for the GBA
GBA Deflektor – Bounce the lazers puzzler remake for the GBA
Street Rod 3 – Street Rod remake which may be rising from the grave
Alien Blitz – OneKey version of Blitz
Dam Breach – OneKey version of an old Vic20 type in game Nibble
T4 Funeral – Follow up/remake of the Turrican remake T2002
Maelstrom – Funky multiplayer aster**** (Win/Max/Linux/BeOS)
GBA Airball – Isometric arcade adventure for your GBA
Ninja Gaiden 4 – Ninja Gaiden side scroller remake which may still be active

Hairy Harry – Funky networked Beach Volleyball game with dynamic hair and themes! Still active.
Blazing Trails – Shiny remake of the 3D track racer Trailblazer
StarTrade – Space trading in the style of Wing Commander. The (german) forum looks still to be active
Ifrit – Horz jap shooter. The author is “pleased if you also get hot temporarily”
Battle of Yavin – 3D Star Wars shooter
Battle of Endor – Another by the same author
Burn 2 – A 5 on 5 (or computer) deathmatch space shooter based on Gravitar
Wild West Hero – The Robtron-esk Spectrum classic
Icebreaker – Open source version of the arcade puzzler Jezzball
Ultra Flexball 2000 – Akanoid style breakout game
JCubitainer – Java Tetris with a neat twist. Move multiple shapes in all directions at once!
Delux Pacman – Pacman
Robocop 2D – Remake of the side scrolling shooter.
Chuck Rock Dance – Rhythm game to Queen’s We Will Rock You
Oolite – Excellent Elite remake still active (Win/Mac/Linux)

League Bowling – Flash remake of the Neo Geo game (I’ve broken the link to stop embedding)
Newgrounds Flash Remakes – Various other remakes at Newgrounds (Frogger, Pang, BombJack,…)
Super Maryo World – Remake of some platformer or other in Javascript, an Applet or C#.Net
Thrust – Very nice flash remake of….well Thrust obviously
Sir Fred – A gorgeous remake of the platform adventure Sir Fred (Spanish site, but multi-language game)
Teppy – PipeMania meets Tetris!

Burguers Rush – 3D remake of the burger maker production line VCS game Pressure Cooker
Alien Abduction – Funky Defender type in style of Mutant Storm (Win/Mac)
Saturn MD – Missile Command remake