Its been a while …

Posted by The Toker on March 29, 2004 · Lovingly Filed Under Retro Remakes News 
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Apologies that news has been slow recently but it is mainly due to the uncertainty of the server move and the fact that CS:CZ has been released. If you haven’t bought it then I suggest you do so because it is awesome.

You can get it from Play for just £16.99. A lot of the IRC guys in #remakes have it and play online most evenings.

And I know I am posting news on a new release but it is technically a remake of Counter Strike :)

Now onto proper remake news ….

Fans of the XCOM series of games should check out the cool looking Project Colonisation. XCOM was the ultimate turn based strategy game, and I wasted hours playing back then. The remake looks stunning, and is based more on the initial games in the series which were easily the best.

Next is Tornado, a remake of a C64 game called Weather War. The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent’s house with certain weather phenomenona such as rain, snow, hail, lightning and tornado. It is playable online against a friend as well as against a computer opponent.

A series that passed me by was the Ultima series of games. Here we have a remake of Ultima 4, otherwise known as Quest of the Avatar. Sounds like something Oddbob and STompy do on the forum if you ask me :) Anyway, I digress, the Ultima series of games were RPG style games of the Dungeon Master ilk, but I can tell you little more than that. If only I had the time to devote to games such as these ….

Tetris remakes are “two for a for penny” but

” target=”_blank”>Attrax is pretty neat. Its a circular game, with a centre of gravity or magnetic pull that pulls the pieces to the centre of the grid. Like most Tetris clones it starts off easy but gets harder very quickly. If you enjoy a challenge then you should grab this one now.

Puzzle game fans will want to check out DCastle, a remake of the classic puzzler Star Castle. Sadly it is a Dreamcast only game, but hey I guess even the sadly under-rated Sega console is classed as retro these days.

Spy’s Demise was just the C64 version of Nifty Lifty if you ask me. Basically you must climb the floors of a building, whilst avoiding a series of moving lifts. Accension to the top earns you a valuable secret Russian code. No website to see, just a download.

Finally two quickies of games that have been remade so many times they are hardly worth mentioning …

Space Invaders and Pacman. Not that I am aiming to criticise remakes but there ARE many more games than these to attempt. And many better remakes too :s

More news is in store and will follow shortly …

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