Retro Remakes

Argh, running out of time to finish it - but its progressing at great speed now and on course. Music by the ever talented Gordon King, you’ll be able to grab the full version the weekend of Retrovision - in the meantime, enjoy a taster of the curry collecting shooty fest. Don’t forget - grabbing [...]

Looks like some utterly luscious and tasty stuff heading our way from Spanish shores with the Spanish Remakes Compo continuing apace. The very kind and gentlemanly Punisher has been proudly (and rightly so) showing off screenshots, videos and updates of the games as they progress on our forums. Colour me impressed with a lot of whats [...]

Only last week I was sitting there twiddling my thumbs with the realisation that its been a while since we had an Advanced Lawnmower Simulator remake. Now, some might say that certainly, this can only be a good thing. But not I. I can never get enough of this perennial favourite. Thanks to NatXCross we have [...]

Oh man, 3d Starstrike ranks pretty much highly as one of my favourite Speccy games in the history of all Speccy games - probably second to my professed love of Technician Ted.  No surprises then that Uncle’s remake is giving me the horn big time. I’ve been hammering the original version in the palm of my [...]

Its a computer…for girls… ok? Anyway, enough of the Petticoat 5 methinketh. Time for a new mini-competition. We’ve gratuitously stolen a load of titles from the corking TV show Look Around You and for this challenge, we’d like to see what you can come up with game wise. Obviously, its crucial that its in the style [...]

Thanks to Icemann for the heads up on this little fella, its a remake of the Amiga Breakout-esque block-buster (hey, I could work at Reflexive with this kind of spiel) for Sony’s increasingly tempting PSP platform. Its called Technoballz, because its got techno things in it and balls. Who’da thunk it, huh? So, if you’re looking [...]

Scottigesoft is dead, nada, no more. Its climbed the curtain rail and joined the choir invisible. In its place, standing tall and proud like Ron Jeremy on Viagra is Auld Games. Its the new home for all things Scottige and only faintly smells of beer and pee on the carpet as its only been in existence [...]

Familiar to those on the Speccy scene is the erstwhile na_th_an and his excellent Phantomas tribute games for the rubber keyed wonder. If anyone wore the qualifications on his sleeve to attempt to breathe new life into the pudgy Spanish character in the age of home PC’s it’d be Mr Phantomas expert himself. So, with [...]

Honestly, I promised myself I wouldn’t make any jokes about what that pink thing reminds me of… after all, whilst we’re a reasonably mature site (fnarr) I wouldn’t like to sink that low on the front page… Anyway, enough about my inability to not associate anything with erotica and on with the show. SIM is a [...]

OK! I honestly don’t have the foggiest so don’t look at me here. Its called Car Park. Its something to do with Smila and in bizarrely cryptic fashion, its on our forum here. Share This

Well colour me crazy and paint me in a subtle shade of purple, Jay Parker has waved his lemming-like umbrella in our general directions with this piece of news: I know there’s a remake called “Maniac Mansion Deluxe” which is a great remake and faithful to the original with a new graphics. Well, I obviously have to [...]

Just a quick note to declare the winner of the inaugaral Retro Remakes poll… out of Dave Perry and Dave Perry, Dave Perry clearly took the lead with 122 votes to 103. I’m sure Dave Perry will be made up to know that between him and Dave Perry, Dave Perry came away with the prize of [...]

Prospero of Firestorm Productions (which is probably best know for it’s POING PC) is back with another remake for your playing pleasure. This time it is a version of the Atari 2600 Centipede. The rather niftily titled Millenipede was put together in just a week and has some work to be done on it here and [...]

Unbelievably this is not a game about a flying bogey, but rather a new remake of the Atari 2600 (and Spectrum, C64, MSX, etc.) Activision classic H.E.R.O. Can you dig it? Jayenkai originally planned to enter this into the 2006 Retro Remakes competition but it got swept under the carpet for a while (I know that [...]

Well I never, it’s that time again already - look what just went splat onto my door mat? This is so fresh that I had to take a photo of (part of) the cover for myself as I couldn’t find an image of this issue on the net yet. It’s none other than the latest issue [...]

I remember when this were all fields…well, not fields - but certainly at a very early stage in development anyway. Thanks to Mr Staypuft I’ve just managed to lay my hands on a copy of the private beta of Operation Block - Operation Wolf meets Lego in a videogame explogasm and… …and its very good indeed. [...]

As you can see, this isn’t quite the Dynamic breastfest that you were probably expecting when you read the title. However, there is certainly a parallel with the monstrously difficult Spanish game in that Game Over (this one, not the other one) is designed to be universally inaccessible. So, pretty much like Game Over by [...]

Does the man ever stop? He’s at it again. Stu’s off in his hot air balloon attempting to take over alternate universes so Smila’s not resting upon his laurels, oh no - he’s writing a “budget” styled platform game in the meantime. With the deadline of Friday. You can tell the man grew up working in the [...]

If you’re not too busy trying to weigh up which Dave Perry is the better of the two for our fancy new poll, you might be interested to know that Kairuga, the excellent homage to Ikaruga has received an update with Vista compatibility and new controls. It may only be one level in length, but its [...]

And this weeks award for most evil remake of the week goes to Eikon, with his remake of the Atari2600 Dragonfire. Dodge fireballs, collect the treasure, stay safe and stay alive in this PC version of the simple but tricky collect em up. I think I’m probably on record a fair few times as saying this, [...]