From The Vault: 2006

One more for the road from Mr Toucan never hurt, right? Ok, brace yourself for yet another mega link dump of remakes (we’re nearly there, eh?)

Flash games – Diablo, Dizzy, Mortal Kombat, Doom, Warcraft and Prepelix
Aqua – Pipe Dream/Mania style puzzle game with shiny pipes
Total Eclipse – The 2nd of the 3D Freescape engine games gets the full on Ovine treatment
Chrono Frogger – ChronoCross RPG mixed with Frogger. Yes really.
Hunt the Wumpus – Graphical Java version of the game that’s probably older than you
Pac the Man X – Polished version of Mr and Ms Pacman for the Mac
Nazghul -  A RPG engine, but the example game Haxima is Ultima 5 (Win/Mac/Linux)
The Ur-Quan Masters – If you know Star Control you know this. If not check it out.
Ghosts’n'Goblins – Remake of the excellent, but hard scrolling arcade platformer
Super Mario – Includes a level editor
Laser Squad – Online (and downloadable) Java version of the Spectrum turn-based-squad-strategy game
Rebel Star – Another online Java version of a classic Spectrum strategy game
Sokoban – 190 levels of online Java (or downloadable) Sokoban goodness or badness depending on taste
Deflektor X4 – Laser bouncing puzzle game
Crystal Cubes – Shiny looking Tetris
The Last Starfighter – An 80s cult film game which never existed. Remade!
Omega Race – Mr Soks brings joy to our lives with this vector shooter remake
Advance Wars by Web – Very much active web based version of the turn based strategy game
TaxiPilot – Linux remake of Space Taxi for the C64
Battle Taxi – Space Taxi remake (Win/Linux)
Tong – Tetris and Pong mash-up (Win/Linux)
Angry Drunken Dwarves – Remake of the falling gems puzzle game Super Puzzle Fighter
Spaze Invaderz – Space Invaders
Grid Assault – Remake of the vector area shooter Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

Paradroid – Ovine, remaker team extraordinaire, do Paradroid the C64 classic
Willy’s Miner Nightmare – Another Tale from the Darkside. A new platform adventure for Mr Willy
3D Ant Attack – Everybody’s favourite Uncle does a sterling remake of the isometric classic.
Sushi Samurai – Flash version of Burger Time
Megaman vs Ghosts’n'Goblins – Flash mash-up. Play GnG as Megaman. Great stuff.
Megaman vs Metroid – Another great Flash mash-up.
Within A Deep Forest – Before Kyntt there was this excellent platformer
Puzzle Land – GBA puzzle game Daedalian remake
Jet Set Willy 2006 – Musti does an update of Britain’s most famous Spectrum platformer
Ladybug – Flash version of the enjoyable Pacman variant
Bounty Bob Rides Again – Endurion remakes, updates and sprinkles sugar on top of the C64 platformer Bounty Bob Strikes Back
X-It…Again – Nice remake of the block puzzler X-It
Master of Magic – Start of update to one of the original 4X turn-based-strategy games
Boulderdash – One of the the most remade games ever. Because it’s good!
The Warrior’s Tale – Turn based RPG based on Bard’s Tale
Lode Runner X – Lode Runner update with a 4 player option
Natto-Cat – Boulderdash with cats, custard and a cave editor! Also loads other remake levels
Push-Push Penguin – Pengo arcade game remake
Zenith – A now abandoned update of The Sentinal
King’s Quest III – Faithful VGA remake of the adventure game

StroQ – The NDS puzzle game Polarium (Win/Mac/Linux)
LMarbles – Atomix style puzzler (Linux/Win)
Dizzy Lives – Everybody’s favourite egg done Musti side up
Gordian Tomb – Another polished remake by TDBSoft. This ones the C64/Amiga arcade platformer
Sentinel – Endurion turns his remaking powers to this classic
Target 2006 – Remake of the beat-em-up-scroller Target Renegade
Disorder – Turn-based-wizard-battler (that’s a genre right?) based on Chaos
Packin’ Plax – Nice remake of the arcade puzzler Klax
Thrust Xtreme – Gorgeously glowy Thrust remake with level and object editor
Orbit Hopper – Remake of the Trailblazer style arcade game Skyroads (Win/Linux)
Tetripz – Tetris under the influence of psychedelics.
Snake Classic – Flash version of Snake
Asteroids – Ishishoft gift us Asteroids with a 2P co-op or Space Wars mode
Jet Set Willy New Adventures In Sci Fi – Title says it all. Flash.
Manic Miner – Flash clone of the platformer
4k Java Games – Web-startable 4k retro style games. Kudos Mr Glass
Typhoon – Web-startable Java Tempest
JTransversion – Online Java version of the old Spectrum arcade game
XBlast – Nice Bomberman remake that will qualify for it’s pension soon. Multiplayer only (Win/Linux)
Bomberbots 3D – Two-Player one-keyboard Bomberman style game
Q*Bert Escape from Flatland – Q*Bert update with rotating isometric levels. DarkBasic source available
Peasant’s Quest – Kings Quest I adventure game in Flash
Magic Maze – Gauntlet style monster basher in Ruby. (Win/OLPC-XO)

Barbados – Flash remake of head-on. Drive round the ring collecting dots
Snowball – Run’n'jump platformer inspired by Solomon’s Key (Win/Mac/Linux)
Danger UXB – Old BBC arcade game
Secret Quest – Clone of the good Atari 2600 arcade adventure. Well good for the 2600
Cultris – Tetris with a twist of course…This ones online multiplayer (Win/Linux)
TGame2 – Turrican2 remake
Scramble – Mr GLBasic (Gernot) with the aid of Mr WIP (Minion) produce a glowy vector Scramble
Levitar 3D Evolved – Rewrite of the authors Gravitar/Lunar Lander style game
Fliflixx – Flash Flixx remake. Guide the rocket to the targets in progressively harder screens
VBS Boulderdash – IE only browser version of Boulderdash
TMNT Engine – Still on going remake of the side scrolling beat’em’up
Typhoon 2001 – Excellent version of the vector shooter Tempest 2000 (Win/Linux)
Turbo Esprit – Multiplayer online remake of Turbo Esprit, the GTA-esk driving-walking-killing game
Highway Encounter – Nice update of the populate arcadey-strategy-speccy game
(Oh No) More Invaders From Space – My thoughts exactly. Actually its ok. Bangin’ tune!
Laser Tactics – 3D take on the strategy game Laser Squad (Win/Linux)
Gravitron – Before the excellent Gravitron 2 there was this glowy Thrust style game
Jet Set Willy Online – Inspired genius. Who’d have thought it from such a motley bunch?
Pascal,C,DOS,GB games – Some old 2600, GameBoy and other bits and pieces. Most with source
Goody The Remake – Linux version of the gorgeous Spanish platformer remake Goody
Streets of Rage – Still in progress remake of the beat-em-up
Lemmings DS – OpenSource DS version of the Amiga Lemmings
Alley Cat 2 – Jump around collecting mice arcade game
Casio Invaders – Space Invaders. The twist being this is the Casio MG-880 Calculator version!