RETRO REMAKES :: Classic Gaming for the Next Generation

Well what a roller coaster that was. The number of entries and the sheer amount of effort that everyone put into this competition easily surpassed our wildest dreams. We were hoping for 50 entries but you gave us 83. Thats brought the prize fund to nearly Ł5000 ... that's quite astonishing if you think about it.

Its also served to open the remakes scene up to a whole host of new people. The number of forum members has doubled, and so has the amount of activity as a result. Of course this has led to many interesting chats, debates and arguments. Our IRC channel (#remakes on any EFNET server) has also never been busier.

Once the competition deadline was up and we had finished collecting and setting up the entries the onslaught began. We sucked up over 80 gigabytes of bandwidth in August, far more than any of us bargained for. We were forced to ask for donations towards the bandwidth costs and so many of you stumped up cash towards the bill for which we are all extremely grateful.

Once the first few hectic post-deadline days were out of the way we started on the reviews and selecting the winning entries. We have worked hard on this, with 83 games to play fairly and reviews to do for each entry, it took quite a bit longer than the four weeks we anticipated, for which we sincerely apologise.

Anyway thats enough waffle ... onto the thing you really want ...

Not important really . . . is it :)

Pos	Game Title	Author	Score
1	SWIV Decimation	Smayds	92.00
2	R-Tronic	Trevor 'Smila' Storey	89.00
3	Impossaball	Andrew Pointon (TCK)	88.67
4	Pengo 3D	X2 Productions	88.33
5	WheelieRR	Ed Jones	88.00
6	Push!	Sei	85.67
7	Road Fighter	Santi Ontańón	84.00
8	Lunar Rescue	Trevor 'Smila' Storey	82.67
9	Joust 3	JPH Wacheski	82.33
10	Terra Cognita	Ovine Design	82.00
11	Uridium	MinionSoft	81.67
12	Glug Glug	Geekay	80.67
13	Wizball	Lieven van der Heide	80.67
14	Pacmaniac	Nicolas Atek	80.00
15	Fargoal	Elias Pschernig/Paul Pridham	80.00
16	Balloon Fight	groovygecko	79.67
17	Sheer Panic	Kieran & Declan Sandwell	78.67
18	Space Harrier VGL	Roderick Rivero	77.67
19	Olympic Skier	Andrew Layden	77.33
20	Harrier Raid	Sickfish	77.33
21	Bomber Warrior	Grismald Ovsic	77.00
22	Elevator Action	Jason Brown	76.67
23	Dizzy's Bad Day	Scottige	76.33
24	Kokotoni Wilf	Robert D. Fearon	74.67
25	Pitfall 2	WolRon	74.67
26	Time Pilot	Jonathan Olds	73.67
27	a-Outsiders	Lucas S. Junqueira	73.67
28	Water War	Phicode	73.67
29	Escape from Orion: TNG	Simon Bradley	73.33
30	Crystalis	Ben Hendel-Doying	72.33
31	Jumbly PC	PeeJay	71.33
32	Aquantor	George Rottensteiner	71.00
33	Run Out	Emmanuel Icart	71.00
34	Watermania	Ric Lumb	69.33
35	Conan	Mike Fraley	69.00
36	E-Motion	Bas de Reuver	68.33
37	Moon Patrol 3D	Eric Doudoux	67.67
38	Mario Kart Remix	Monkeymook	67.67
39	Squish'em	Gilby	67.00
40	Ghouls n Ghosts	Ian Price	67.00
41	Quincetron	Geekay	67.00
42	Robocop	Eric, Brian & Alan Park	66.67
43	Karateka	Flavio Smirne	66.00
44	Time Pilot	Avi (Claudio) Chami	66.00
45	Dare Devil Dennis	Havard Spring	64.33
46	Spore	David Normington	63.00
47	Time Pilot	Cairns Games	63.00
48	Aquaplane	Thomas Venables	62.33
49	Antiriad	Ovine Design	62.33
50	Jungle Trouble	Arif Majothi	62.00
51	HardNHeavy Remix	Jonathan Olds	62.00
52	Mole Attack	Ovine Design	61.00
53	Blasto 3D	Jocelyn "GoSsE" Perreault	61.00
54	Berzerk	Benjamin Aeilkema	59.00
55	IOX	IOX Team	58.67
56	Space Wars	Benjamin Aeilkema	58.33
57	Faxanadu	Carlos Andres Ramirez	58.33
58	SM Super Dodge Ball	Rhys Davies	56.33
59	Crazee Rider	Gavin Woodworth	55.67
60	Vatman	Ray James	54.00
61	Fungaloids	Martin Ruffe	51.33
62	Block Man	Bernard François	50.67
63	Black & White	Sarviro Aleksandr	50.00
64	Mega Rabbit	Gavin Swile	49.00
65	Foxx Fights Back	Pantera Designs	47.67
66	Alpharoid	Benjamin Aeilkema	42.67
67	Spy Demise	Christophe Fougčre	41.00
68	Duct Hunt	Jack Zimmer	37.33
69	Ground Attack	PeeJay	35.00
70	Galaxy Warrior	PeeJay	34.67
71	Alpha Lunar	David Harper	34.67
72	Island Connexion	Greg Kennedy/Jesse Printz	31.33
73	Asteroids remix	Jack Zimmer	26.67
74	Vibtiles	Codar	24.33
75	Menace	Steven Campbell	21.00
76	Top Shelf Challenge	Green Eyed Monster	18.67
77	Frog!	Peter Williams	16.33
78	Fly Roads	Exeat Johnson	16.00
79	Chikara Flame	Preston Chaderton	14.67
80	Spy Hunter	Tim Saunders	14.00
81	Pure Sheriff	Stef Leflou	5.67
82	Pong	Tom Scott	4.67
83	Ultimate Mario Bros.	Brice Hirst	0.00


Pos	Game Title	Author	Score
1	Impossaball	Andrew Pointon (TCK)	93.00
2	Pengo 3D	X2 Productions	93.00
3	SWIV Decimation	Smayds	92.00
4	R-Tronic	Trevor 'Smila' Storey	91.00
5	Road Fighter	Santi Ontańón	91.00
6	Bomber Warrior	Grismald Ovsic	90.00
7	WheelieRR	Ed Jones	87.00
8	Push!	Sei	86.00
9	Terra Cognita	Ovine Design	85.00
10	Wizball	Lieven van der Heide	85.00


Pos	Game Title	Author	Score
1	SWIV Decimation	Smayds	94.00
2	Joust 3	JPH Wacheski	92.00
3	WheelieRR	Ed Jones	89.00
4	Water War	Phicode	89.00
5	R-Tronic	Trevor 'Smila' Storey	87.00
6	Lunar Rescue	Trevor 'Smila' Storey	86.00
7	Uridium	MinionSoft	85.00
8	a-Outsiders	Lucas S. Junqueira	84.00
9	Fargoal	Elias Pschernig/Paul Pridham	84.00
10	Terra Cognita	Ovine Design	84.00


Pos	Game Title	Author	Score
1	Impossaball	Andrew Pointon (TCK)	91.00
2	SWIV Decimation	Smayds	90.00
3	Pengo 3D	X2 Productions	90.00
4	R-Tronic	Trevor 'Smila' Storey	89.00
5	Push!	Sei	88.00
6	WheelieRR	Ed Jones	88.00
7	a-Outsiders	Lucas S. Junqueira	85.00
8	Fargoal	Elias Pschernig/Paul Pridham	85.00
9	Road Fighter	Santi Ontańón	84.00
10	Balloon Fight	groovygecko	82.00

If you have won a top prize then we will be in contact with you shortly via the email address that you submitted your entry from. It is very important that you let us know if this email is no longer valid. We will ask for your details and then pass them onto the relevant sponsor whose responsibility it is to send out your prize(s).

We will NOT be emailing entrants regarding their free copy of Dark Basic, however it is still very important that you update us with your new email address if it has changed since you sent in your entry. We will pass all of these email addresses over to Dark Basic Software who will contact you with details of how to get your prize. The free copies of Dark Basic are an electronic download.

If you have any problems with any prize or if we do not contact you and you think we should have then it will be your responsibility to email one of the Retro Remakes team and we will investigate. Please do not hammer us with mail asking for your prizes as these will be sorted out as soon as possible.


All Entrants to the competition will receive a Dark Basic pack worth Ł40 EACH !! Dark Basic Software have also supplied 3 copies of DB Professional worth Ł80 each Click Team have donated MMF and JaMagic as part of a bundle of Ł650 worth of prizes Fast Trak have donated 5 of their software packages worth a total of over Ł220 Two sets of Kool Dog games have been donated by Idigicon worth Ł50 each CD-WOW have donated a bonus prize of a Console Game worth upto Ł40 We greatly appreciate the support of the sponsors in this competition, for without them it would not be worth entering would it. In return we ask that you visit there respective sites and look around. Dark Basic Dark Basic Pro Click Team Fast Trak Idigicon CD WOW

Given the success of this competition it goes without saying that there will be a next one. Don't expect it that soon tho. For once the team at Retro Remakes knows what its like to be under immense pressure to deliver, much the same as you guys do when it comes to releasing your games. It will be nice to actually have a social life back for once and not to have to worry about the competition reviews after a long hard day (or night) at work.

We learned a lot from this competition. We took criticism and complaints on the forum and managed to deal with most of them amicably. We disqualified one game due to it being started in 2000. We were not prepared for the bandwidth. We were late with the results due to circumstances beyond our control and the sheer number of entries. All of these things will be taken on board and will hopefully be addressed when we plan the next competition.

Although no decisions have been made yet there is one thing for certain - its going to be a tough job following this one. Expect the next one sometime after the launch of a spanking new design for Retro Remakes. This is still in the early planning stages still so don't expect too much too soon.

For now we are all going to take a deserved break and get down to some serious gameplaying and to concentrate on maintaining the existing design and helping the remakes community to become even bigger and better.

All that remains is for us to thank you all for all your hard work and for helping to make the first Retro Remakes remake competition a huge, huge success.