RR Towers said the advert, but compact and bijou dungeon would fit better. Still it’s not all bad, down here, trawling through the archives. There are some real gems amongst the old posts; from the glowy vectors of Echoes and Veck, to the remake awesomeness of Archaist and Ranarama. From insane visuals of Spheres of Chaos to the simply insane Ratmaze 2. There’s been plenty to keep me busy between feeds. Plus there’s plenty of orcs for the multiplayer games (though I’m starting to understand Bob’s dislike of them; never beat an Orc at Chaos Groove, very touchy).
Speaking feeds and Bob, here he is with my porridge. So I’ll tuck in while you enjoy the feast that was 2007.
Jackal 3D – Top down 3D remake of the jeep driving shooter
DS International Karate – DS remake of the martial arts beat-em-up
Demon Attack – How To Do a Good Remake 101 by Harold
Scramble – Another good remake by Harold
Asteroidz – Asteroids with rapid fire power up
Pac Power – Pacman/Boulderdash mash-up
Shoot ‘em up Game Builder – Beta remake of the Shoot Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK)
Bombzuka – Funky remake of the arcade puzzler Bombuzal
Ranarama – Very nice remake of the arcade maze adventure (Win/Mac/Linux)
Super Cars III – Top down racers Super Cars I and II combined (I + II = III)
Crazy Cometz – Crazy Mad Comet Planet blasting action
Frog – Fly eating Froggy fun in this old (well obviously) Commodore Pet remake
Chaos Caverns – Platformer in the style of Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy (Win/Mac/Linux)
Arcadia – Fixed shooter retro action
Pulse Blade – Nice Starforce style vertical shooter with a touch of Japanese bullet hell
Plok – Test engine of fan game of the Plok platformer
Midnight/MU – 2-8 Player TBS game based on Lords Of Midnight. Still active
Driller – By the Power of Ovine we have the classic Freescape 3D game
Starion 2010 – Remake of the arcade players version of Elite
Blitz 50 – PeeJay inflicts on us “my version of 50 dire games”. Treat us bad we love it!
FreeCol – Still being developed OpenSource TBS based on Colonization (Java 1.5)
Duck Dash – Eggs Good. Baddies Bad. A life lesson from The Caffeine Kid – TCK (Win/Mac/Linux)
Atomix DS – Atomix for the DS
Vectors Revenge – TCK does a lovely vector take of the 2600 shooter Yars Revenge (Win/Mac/Linux)
Munch Mates – Retro to 11 in this remake of the TI-99/4A pacman game Munchman
Return to Wor – Isometric update of the maze shooter Wizard of Wor
Giana Sisters DS – DS version of the nothing-like-super-mario-no-sirree-mr-lawyer platformer
Balloon Tournament 2006 – Updated version of the Joust-esk arcade game including multiplayer, Deathmatch, CTF, …
Invincilble Island – OneSwitch version of the Spectrum text adventure
Space Chunks – Asteroids with extra weapons, end boss and a 2P option
Echoes – The Binary Zoo team do Asteroids on glowy vector steroids. With a touch of that-arena-shooter
Counter Clockwise – Lovely multiplayer version of the 3D light cycle style Spectrum game Knot in 3D
The Underside – Uber-Stylish platformer. Is it done yet? No.
Tempo Typen Tribute – Remake of a Dutch C64 speed typing game
Super Obliteration – That remaking (expresso) machine TCK serves up this Pang style Amiga remake
Super Mario Underground – 5 new level subterranean adventure for the plumber done good
Alter Ego – Online remake of the life personality simulator written by a psychologist
Battle City – Flash version of the 1 or 2 player Pimp My Combat style tank game
Inyou Douji Monogatari – Nice looking platformer where gameplay depends on which of two characters you play
Veck – Excellent glowy-vector-arena-shooter
Kairuga – Worthy tribute to the vertical shooter Ikaruga
Game Over – Game showing the inaccessibility of most games. Writing a game? Try this! (Win/Mac/Linux)
Millenipede – Excellent update of Centipede. BlitzMax source available (Win/Mac)
Muffys Great Escape – Scrolling vertical platformer
Scramble Evolution – Scramble remake
Mechatron – Fan of the original arena shooter (Robotron) form an orderly queue please for this lovely update
Chirality – Nice one switch puzzler
Frontier 1337 – PSP homebrew Elite II
Donkey Kong – Mario’s first adventure done in the style of Game and Watch
Tanks Online – Online, 4 player version of the bullet bouncing tank game Combat
Nuclear XmasMan – Christmas themed Bomberman for up to 16 players
Omars Oyster Outing – Top down 2D zombie shooting RPG action
Chaos Groove – The TBS classic remade and updated to meet all your Wizard zapping needs
Secret Agent – Platform shooter in the style of Apogee’s Secret Agent
Space Invaders – 30 years on and they’re still invading
Z Tack – Clone of the Atari 2600 game
Widelands – Active OpenSource version of the RTS Settlers (Win/Mac/Linux)
Duck Hunt – PSP home brew of the NES anatine massacre game
Spider Trap – Online web-startable arcadey puzzley mazey type thing (Win/Mac)
Ghostbusters II – Prolific remakers Park Productions do the second of the Ghostbuster series
Finders Keepers – The first of the Magic Knight platformers gets faithfully remade
Booga Boo – The excellent C64 cave jumper gets a remake and graphical update
Jet Set Willy 2006 – Musti does an updated JSW
Crystal Hammer – Musti and Gigatron do breakout
Moon Lander – Retro version of the very retro vector game
Locomotion – Build the train track in this slide the blocks style puzzler
Chronos A Tapestry of Time – Nice remake of an old spectrum horizontal shooter
Spirits – Another one of those gorgeous Spanish arcade adventure remakes (Win/Mac/Linux)
Ratmaze 2 – Mental-mazey retro-ratty flashy-Flash fun
Zub – Lovely remake of the arcade platform tower climber shooter game
Sensitive DS – DS home brew remake of a C64 puzzler
Bloody Human Freeway – Remake of the cross-the-busy-road game Freeway for the 2600
Hurrican – Glorious remake of the classic run-jump-shooter Turrican
Call of the Dragon – Old school style 2D scrolling beat-em-up, but with modern 3D graphics
Android 1 – Remake of the Bezerk style shooter
Cave Story DS – Homebrew DS version of the famous indie platformer
Bite the Bullets – Ishi takes us to glowy bullet hell in this no-click shooter
Re-Animator – Wannabea Spice Girl? No. Wannabe a Remaker? Then try this.
Barbarian – Flash version of the muscles and big swords chop-em-up
Cauldron – Brooms at the ready in this witchy platform shooter remake
Monty on the Run – Terrific talpine platformer
Sir Lancelot – Mr Sok’s first born is a loving remake of the Spectrum platformer
Too Many Ninjas – Flash hack’n'slash
Conrad Dangerous – You might call the Rick Dangerous III, but legally I couldn’t comment
Dungeon Master DS – Now stopped open source DS version of the classic Atari ST RPG
Joe Snow – Old DOS platformer remade for you. Yes you at the back
Out of Chaos – Chaos and Out of the Shadows combo to produce a rouge like wizard battler
Minesweeper Online – It took half century of computer evolution, but it’s here for you now
Cartouche – The Codex brings us a 3-Match game, but he’s given so much we’ll forgive him
Camelot Warriors – Yet Another Glorious Spanish Platformer (Win/GP2X)
Collisseum – Pretend to be Heston in this 3D chariot racing remake
Rescue from Atlantis – Pretend to be Cousteau in this CPC underwater arcade adventure remake
Johnny Platform’s Biscuit Romp – Ishi turns his hand to the DS and brews us a nice platformer
Gridblaster – Remake of the Atari/Apple/C64/Vic (pick one) Crossfire maze shooter. Well not really a maze…but hey
Robocop 2D 3 – Horizontal scrolling blasting in another of Park Production’s Robocop remake series
Moon Patrol – New Path – Shinobi does a polished updated remake of the bouncing buggy arcade shooter
Polybius – Remake of the urban legend game that never was
Planitia – Multiplayer Populus!
Lionheart Remake – Evolved – Lovely looking platform arcade adventure
Karate Champ – Networked beta of the one of the original beat-em-ups
Galaxian 2007 – Spiffy alien blasting action in this screen shooter remake
EUO – Egg’s Ultima Online – Fight orcs in this still active online RPG based on Ultima
Starquake – Remake of the popular arcade adventure platformer
Kaboodle – Tower Collapse style arcade puzzler from the RetroDev team
Fast Manic – Musti is as Musti does. And Must does another platformer
BeTiled! – Ever wanted to play Bejewelled on a Spectrum, Amstrad or MSX? Well you can
Retrovaders – Retro version of the retro shooter (Win/Mac/Linux)
Wizball – Lovely remake of the horz shootery type game that you love or hate (or don’t know)
Inaria – A written in 40 hour RPG. C++, but also with Java and C# ports (source available)
Archaist – Excellent updated remake of the vertical shooter Pathfinder (Win/Mac)
The Goonies – Remake of the MSX version of the film based platformer
Sensitive – Remake of a C64 puzzler (Win/Mac)
l1neum – 3D Qix style game (Win/Mac)
Frozen Bubble – Puzzle Bobble (Win/Mac/Linux)
Miss Driller – Mr Driller remake (Win/Mac/Linux)
Chopper – Choplifter for the Mac (Mac)
Spikey Harold – Soks brings a lovely Carnivac hedgehog to life in this platformer
Return to Sector 9 – Whadaya mean you’ve never been there? Go see this shooter
Exile II – The Nameless – Huge space arcade adventure by Ovine
Spheres of Chaos – Awesome psychedelic asteroids style arena shooter (Win/Mac/Linux/RiscOS/PSP)
Excalibur Dizzy – Dizzy fan game based on the Spectrum text adventure Excalibur: Sword of Kings
Mission Elite: The Battle for Birera – OpenSource remake of Elite (Win/Linux)
Cybernoid 3: Phoenix – Darkside gives us a fan game sequel to the flick screen shooter
