Old games excellent remakes!

mysli · 17 June 2024, 20:51

Is there a thread like this already? I thought I'll start a thread of old game remakes for modern computers, Windoze (yuk) most of the time. There's Wine tho, also the Steam software seems to work so you can play the games on Linux using the Proton "engine" in Steam. I haven't tried it as of late, someone said the earliest version of Proton works the best.

Alley cat remeow - https://www.joflof.com/alley.html
Ultimate Bruce Lee - https://archive.org/details/ultimate...dows-10_202011
Meteor mess, a Maniac mansion remake - https://meteormess.de/
Head over heels - https://hoh.helmantika.com/en/nuestro-remake/
Wizball - https://retrospec.sgn.net/info.htm?id=wizball&t=g
Airborne ranger - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703070/
Infiltrator - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2256420/
Ports of call deluxe 3d 2024 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2942050/

Some more game remakes: http://retrospec.sgn.net/
Old and new game remakes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mastered_ports

Anyone know of pages or lists of old game remakes?!

gimbal · 17 June 2024, 22:10

We tend to talk about each game in their own dedicated thread as we spot them in the wild.

CCCP alert · 17 June 2024, 22:30

Retrospec's Manic Miner Windows remake is awesome.

kremiso · 18 June 2024, 09:34

the Andy Noble Jet Set Willy remake on PC is awesome
i also reached to complete it

i dreamed an Amiga AGA version back then, but ok we have Willy Weirdy Nightmare that is really good

i also played a fantastic Monty on the run remake a couple of years ago, cannot find atm anymore, the Youtube videos arent of the one i have played; i have to browse in the old hdd

yeah, Retrospec still have some good ones, i liked a lot Exolon and Cybernoid

Minuous · 18 June 2024, 09:50

Here's a list of what I have, they are all excellent because I deleted a lot of crap ones ;-) IIRC a couple are similar to the originals but most are significantly enhanced.

Unfortunately I didn't keep links to them, but most should still be findable if you search, it will at least give you an idea of what is/was available. They are all remakes of Amiga and C64 games, except a few like HOTM (Heavy on the Magick), etc.

09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> ABurn3D
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> AlleyCat
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> antatack
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> AntAttack3D
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> archone
18/06/2024 11:02 AM <DIR> AttackOfTheMutantCamels
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> barbarian
22/11/2004 02:51 PM 754,883 cliffhng.exe
18/06/2024 10:58 AM <DIR> Cybernoid2
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> delta
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> dm2
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> driller
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> fargoal
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> finderskeepers
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> giana
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> HeadOverHeels-RetroRemakes
18/06/2024 11:06 AM <DIR> HeadOverHeels-Santos
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> HotM
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> ikplus
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> io
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> jumpjack
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> katakis
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> kq3
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> lionheart
14/06/2024 12:53 PM <DIR> lsl1
18/06/2024 11:05 AM <DIR> ManiacMansion
09/04/2024 08:38 AM <DIR> marble
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> mercenary
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> mercenary-sdl
18/06/2024 11:03 AM <DIR> MetagalacticLlamas
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> milenium
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> mule
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> NuclearWar3.0.0
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> sentinel-1.0
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> sentinel-1.5
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> Sentinel-Monolith
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> Sentinel-Pinnacle
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> Sentinel-Zenith
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> sharrier
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> sotb1
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> sq2
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> starwars
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> stuntcar-1st
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> stuntcar-2nd
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> Supercars3
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> tempest3
19/03/2021 03:47 AM 115,789,955 Ultimate Bruce Lee (For Windows 10).exe
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> valley
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> Virus
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> Virus-Chaga
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> wizball-v1.02
09/04/2024 08:39 AM <DIR> zaxxon

XPD · 18 June 2024, 10:33

I find a lot of "remakes" are poorly done and just cash grabs.

One game I'd LOVE to see a real remake/modern release of, is Syndicate. Don't touch the controls/gameplay, just upgrade the GFX and SFX to modern resolutions, and that is it.

I'd be a happy camper

Minuous · 18 June 2024, 10:40

And a semi-transparent roof option so you can actually see what you are doing when inside the buildings :-D

DisasterIncarna · 18 June 2024, 11:19

the version of battle squadron that appeared on Android a while back was pretty decent because it didnt look or sound any different to the Amiga version, a good old, if it aint broke, dont fix it approach.

I think i remember ios had spy vs spy, that looked great, had retro/modern gfx toggles but the control scheme sucked balls making the whole thing a pretty poor experience, only played it a few times due to my only purchase of an apple product, an ipad3, this bad choice of mine is why i quickly noped out of apple products once they intentionally made the product obsolete and void from updates with them forcing app creators to also update to require the "updated" os, so you couldnt even stick to using old device + old apps, nice expensive and worthless paperweight in the end.

mysli · 18 June 2024, 16:08

Also a few remakes for the old Amiga computers! Jet set Billy, Masterblaster (this was the best remake, right?!), Minerunner (Loderunner isn't an exquisite game but this multitasks), Nemesis the warlock (with 2 player mode). Nemesis the warlock remake was coded by someone called Karppa, a Finnish dude afaik, he also coded some other games. I don't know about more remakes. Anyone have these? Seems that the remake is difficult to find nowadays, it was on Aminet but they don't have half of the files they used to have there. Wonder what happened with that? I'm sure they have all the files somewhere backupped, lets push it that they'll restore them and put them online!

I'll add, the best multitasking games of the 90s for the downloads and uploads, maybe this needs another thread? Pete Whiteman's Klondike (tried to contact the author by email but he didn't reply), I don't know was it the right person, Zetris, Dieserzug (a basic worm-game, don't like this anymore), Maybe I forgot a game or two, I'll add them if I'll remember!

ps. Would anyone have feedback.lha, the chaos fractal thing for Amiga? Or something like that for Linux?

Coagulus · 18 June 2024, 18:56

I guess our Timebomb is a remake of Timebomb on the Speccy and is a straight remake with little change apart from GFX/SFX. JetHunt is a tribute to HERO but similar. 10x10 and 4096 are also re (de?) makes from Android.

CCCP alert · 19 June 2024, 01:17

Ratsoft did an awesome port Defender for OCS Amiga, ditto Cabaret Asteroids for OCS.

17 June 2024, 20:51	#1
mysli Registered User Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: Finland Posts: 2	Old games excellent remakes! Is there a thread like this already? I thought I'll start a thread of old game remakes for modern computers, Windoze (yuk) most of the time. There's Wine tho, also the Steam software seems to work so you can play the games on Linux using the Proton "engine" in Steam. I haven't tried it as of late, someone said the earliest version of Proton works the best. Alley cat remeow - https://www.joflof.com/alley.html Ultimate Bruce Lee - https://archive.org/details/ultimate...dows-10_202011 Meteor mess, a Maniac mansion remake - https://meteormess.de/ Head over heels - https://hoh.helmantika.com/en/nuestro-remake/ Wizball - https://retrospec.sgn.net/info.htm?id=wizball&t=g Airborne ranger - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703070/ Infiltrator - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2256420/ Ports of call deluxe 3d 2024 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2942050/ Some more game remakes: http://retrospec.sgn.net/ Old and new game remakes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mastered_ports Anyone know of pages or lists of old game remakes?!

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17 June 2024, 22:10	#2
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,977	We tend to talk about each game in their own dedicated thread as we spot them in the wild.

17 June 2024, 22:30	#3
CCCP alert Registered User Join Date: May 2023 Location: essex Posts: 502	Retrospec's Manic Miner Windows remake is awesome.

18 June 2024, 09:34	#4
kremiso Registered User Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: Italy Posts: 1,966	the Andy Noble Jet Set Willy remake on PC is awesome i also reached to complete it i dreamed an Amiga AGA version back then, but ok we have Willy Weirdy Nightmare that is really good i also played a fantastic Monty on the run remake a couple of years ago, cannot find atm anymore, the Youtube videos arent of the one i have played; i have to browse in the old hdd yeah, Retrospec still have some good ones, i liked a lot Exolon and Cybernoid

18 June 2024, 10:33	#6
XPD Geek Kiwi Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 47 Posts: 213	I find a lot of "remakes" are poorly done and just cash grabs. One game I'd LOVE to see a real remake/modern release of, is Syndicate. Don't touch the controls/gameplay, just upgrade the GFX and SFX to modern resolutions, and that is it. I'd be a happy camper

18 June 2024, 10:40	#7
Minuous Coder/webmaster/gamer Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canberra/Australia Posts: 2,676	And a semi-transparent roof option so you can actually see what you are doing when inside the buildings :-D

18 June 2024, 11:19	#8
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,269	the version of battle squadron that appeared on Android a while back was pretty decent because it didnt look or sound any different to the Amiga version, a good old, if it aint broke, dont fix it approach. I think i remember ios had spy vs spy, that looked great, had retro/modern gfx toggles but the control scheme sucked balls making the whole thing a pretty poor experience, only played it a few times due to my only purchase of an apple product, an ipad3, this bad choice of mine is why i quickly noped out of apple products once they intentionally made the product obsolete and void from updates with them forcing app creators to also update to require the "updated" os, so you couldnt even stick to using old device + old apps, nice expensive and worthless paperweight in the end.

18 June 2024, 16:08	#9
mysli Registered User Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: Finland Posts: 2	Also a few remakes for the old Amiga computers! Jet set Billy, Masterblaster (this was the best remake, right?!), Minerunner (Loderunner isn't an exquisite game but this multitasks), Nemesis the warlock (with 2 player mode). Nemesis the warlock remake was coded by someone called Karppa, a Finnish dude afaik, he also coded some other games. I don't know about more remakes. Anyone have these? Seems that the remake is difficult to find nowadays, it was on Aminet but they don't have half of the files they used to have there. Wonder what happened with that? I'm sure they have all the files somewhere backupped, lets push it that they'll restore them and put them online! I'll add, the best multitasking games of the 90s for the downloads and uploads, maybe this needs another thread? Pete Whiteman's Klondike (tried to contact the author by email but he didn't reply), I don't know was it the right person, Zetris, Dieserzug (a basic worm-game, don't like this anymore), Maybe I forgot a game or two, I'll add them if I'll remember! ps. Would anyone have feedback.lha, the chaos fractal thing for Amiga? Or something like that for Linux?

18 June 2024, 18:56	#10
Coagulus Gets there in the end... Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Wales Posts: 872	I guess our Timebomb is a remake of Timebomb on the Speccy and is a straight remake with little change apart from GFX/SFX. JetHunt is a tribute to HERO but similar. 10x10 and 4096 are also re (de?) makes from Android.

19 June 2024, 01:17	#11
CCCP alert Registered User Join Date: May 2023 Location: essex Posts: 502	Ratsoft did an awesome port Defender for OCS Amiga, ditto Cabaret Asteroids for OCS.

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