WOO HOO!
We made it, we actually made it! Well done to all the judges for managing to complete the long task of reviewing 70 odd games and many, many thanks to the entrants and sponsers.
Ooooooooh Wait a minute, whats this over on the right? Blimey, not seen that HTML before… Aha! Its the new Competition 2004 linkage isn’t it, brillant! I’m sure you will all be wanting to check those bad boys out now, especially if you were an entrant and are keen to see if you won a prize.
Before I sign off I would like to leave you with this final thought, “If a remaker could chuck remakes how many remakes could he chuck?”
Midnight deadline …
We’re just under 14 hours away from announcing the results of this year’s Retro Remake Competition. All the reviews are in and done, the webpages are ticking along and will be finished, and most of the major prize winners are already known to the judges.
There are gonna be some surprised people let me tell you !
Why not join us on IRC tonight as the results go live so you can say why you didn’t deserve to come 37th, and in fact should have won top prize.
Midnight (BST or GMT, you choose). Be there or be square.
Reviews day is almost here
Sorry to Geekay for being a bit slow, but a few days ago he released his new Brainstorm remake. I played an early demo of this and its most definately a brainstorming game. Fries your mind it does !! Check it out.
Asteroid Storm 3D. Is it good ? I dunno ! Looks nice though. Could be good. Do you even like Asteroids ? Not yet played the other 600 versions ? Well then, give this one a try !
Flynn found this one for me (thanky muchly). While perusing the spanish remakes site, he uncovered this thread showcasing a new Bruce Lee remake. Neat.
Wings Of Fury has just hit v0.70. Its shaping up very nicely too so head on over and grab this pup…
more very soon.
Come to Daddy ….
After 3 years of tracking it, and numerous attempts at contacting the previous owner via web and snailmail, I have finally gotten hold of http://www.retroremakes.com
Oh and whilst I was at it I also grabbed the .co.uk to stop any CD sellers getting there grubby mits on it.
Best 30 quid I spent this year :)
Quick news burst …
9572AD emailed me to say a rather nice remake of Ladybug (his all time favorite Pac-Man rip-off) can be grabbed at Puzzle House, the same authors as Jumpin’ Jackson, one of our competition entries.
Mark Stacy has released his version of the Atari 2600 classic Raiders of the Lost Ark with optional mp3 addon packs, weighing in at 6, 12 and 29mb respectively, in Low, High and CD quality versions.
Raid on Bungeling Bay has been released by Jason Brown. Fly your heavily armed chopper around, bombing factories before returning to the safety of your aircraft carrier. Sounds a bit like what’s been going on in Iraq for the last 18 months !
Nick James, author of Perils of Willy and BC’s Quest for Tires has moved to a new website. Looks like there are a few more things to take a gander at while you are there.
Bas de Reuver has pointed out that Wings of Fury, a remake of the Amiga classic, has been released by Byte the Bullet.
Finally versions of Circus Atari, Pong and Matchit for Mac OS 9 and OS X can be found at Macyunsoft. Thanks to Kemal for the info.
Various …
Ian Leigh emailed me to tell me the Mac OSX port of Andy Noble’s Jet Set Willy is available. It’s a direct port of the recent Win32 release.
Oddbob0 has also told me about Torus Trooper, an Open GL speedy thru a tunnel type game, shooting things and beating bosses and in Bob’s words “errr … it rocks :)”.
A great website also got mentioned by Player One on IRC last night, its not exactly remake related, but it made me laugh. Check out the results of swearing in Speccy text adventures.
