Don’t forget !!!
Two important dates for your diaries …
First up is tomorrow (Tues 29th), when Retro Gamer 5 is released. Want to know what happened to Matthew Smith and his Megatree, wanna know what drove Sandy White to make 3D Ant Attack, or Scott Addams to write adventure games ? They have the answers. The magazine is now available EVERY MONTH as opposed to bi-monthly.
And then an insignificant thing happens at midnight this Wednesday, its only the start of the 2004 Retro Remakes Competition. Join if you dare & win your share of £3000.00 worth of glorious prizes.
Pacman Worlds 2 !!
Remember Pacman Worlds from Danjo (now part of ACoders) ? Well, even though it was already an awesome pacman game with hidden extras, secrets and bonus games, he’s gone and tarted it up !! Fixed a ton of stuff, added stuff, called it a sequel (kind of) and its in beta testing stage. The first one was VERY well received. This one is going to be fantastic !!! Check it out on the ACoders Pacz Project page.
T minus 7 days …
Its just 7 days (count em !!) til we release the full details and prizes available in the Retro Remakes Competition.
If you are in two minds about entering then I would take a look at the list of prizes before making a final decision …
So far the prize fund stands at over £2500.00
J-Arcadia-n
Just a quickie news item, cos its a good un !! Jarcadian (a remake of Arcadia from the c-vic20) has just been finished, tweaked, finished again, tweaked a bit more, and finally released for your playing pleasure. Its hard, but its fun !! Check it out on the Ovine Site. Nice one chaps. Full source is included too if you want some shooty game codey tips…
Online IRC working !!
After month’s of limbo we have finally got IRC working from the webpage again using a new java applet called PJIRC.
The applet was re-discovered by Smayds, after first being discovered last year by Flynn, but we couldn’t work it out !! Flynn will be happy too because we are no longer using a dodgy applet to provide this service :)
Finally the code I produced poorly was fixed by STompy.
Wanna join the madhouse ?? Click the button up top …
R2-D2 rocks !
Heres two battles you might not want to miss, especially if you have ever fantasised about Princess leia in that gold bikini style outfit. Yes! Thats right, two Star Wars Arcade Remakes here… “The Battle of Yavin [14.3mb]” and the unforgettable “Battle of Endor [16.7mb]“. Check out the homepage too. Much pinkness in the direction of Stéphane for letting us know.
If you play with fire your gonna get burned, so I suggest playing Burn 2 instead. Its a gravitar remake by Chris DeLeon, and its bloody good fun too! Download weighs in at only 718k too, which is something I feel the need to Woo Hoo about.
Next up, we’ve got a page with quite a few remakes on.. Link kindly supplied and found by Geekay, thanks mate. So get clicking for remakes of Boulder Dash, Abu Simbel, Manic Miner and more!
