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Good evening ladies and gentlefolk, here be the news at Saturday o’ clock.
Time to clear out some of my backlog before I proceed with any more recent news methinketh…
First up from the Bob drawers of pantless doom comes a remake of the limb chopping, head kicking, all singing, all swinging Palace semi nudey Maria Whittaker and Wolf classic. Yes, there’s nothing else it could be really other than a remake of Barbarian entitled Barbares.
So, if you like nothing more than two sweaty men swinging their swords at each other, then this should be right up your street.
GBA Games have dropped me a note about an update to their excellent GBA version of the cracking maze puzzler XOR. You can now cadge yourself a hefty 15 more levels of XOR goodness, this time taken from “Prospecter In The Mazes Of XOR” and kindly supplied to GBA Games by Andrew Hayes. So, if you fancy exercising your brain cells and having a little handheld fun into the bargain, then you know where to click.
And moving onwards to something a little less cerebral, its Ablach Blackrats version of one of my favourite games of all time… it could only be Tempest. Entitled Tempest:Event Horizon, Ablachs version whilst not the most faithful remake is still a fun little blast in itself and for those who fancy a bit of longevity from their games, there’s an included level editor for creating your own webby goodness (sorry Swith). Its also worth taking a little meander around Ablachs site, as a quick nosey also revealed a Centipede variant and a remake of Mousetrap. Top work.
Well, I think thats me up to date for now. I’m sure there’s some stuff posted in our forum this past week that’ll need attending to soon enough, so we’ll clear some of that out later for your perusal.
Thanks for popping by and happy gameplaying.
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Many thanks go to RetroBlast for jumping on board the Compo 2006 Express and making it even bigger and better, and of course to all the other sponsors who have played a huge part in this competition taking place.
Chill Out
Ah the universal joys of the competition beginning, in the midst of all the madness I’d completely forgotten to post news over the weekend - so here is the news! Late, but still worthy.
First up MarkInc of GridWars fame has dropped me a line to mention that he has quite a few other remakes available for your enjoyment, and I’m embarassed to say that I’ve played and liked a fair few then had posting about them slip my mind entirely.
So, apologies to Mark there and I hope you enjoy his versions of Defender, Robotron, Quantum, Ms Pacman and more. Quite a few come with source code for your perusal also.
Ishi has just finished an absolutely luscious remake of Pushover, the domino collapsing platformer. There’s a whole load of loving been shed upon it and its just as good looking as it is to play. Enjoy!
Still on a puzzlefest, Jay Parker has finished an excellent remake of X-It entitled…wait for it…wait for it… X-It Again. So if pushing things around is your cup of tea (you bully!) then go and take a gander at Jays sterling work.
George Quinn has dropped me a line about his ongoing remake project, Master Of Magic. He’s currently in the process of bringing the DOS classic up to date for this generation, so if thats your bag of orcs - you can do far far worse than nip on over and check out his remake so far.
And last, but definitely not least - we have a purdy remake of Boulderdash for your enjoyment. Lots of pushing going on today, is there a post office queue around here that no-ones told me about?
Oh well, thats me done for now, and don’t forget - if you’ve not joined in the fun, come on in and join our competition!
