Danjo Double Bill

April 29, 2008 · Filed Under Accessibility, Articles, Retro Remakes News · Comment 

Boom boom boom

You lucky, lucky people - right here we don’t just have a single remake we have two of the blighters lined up just for you. Danjo of ACODERS has been a busy bee and just informed us of his Asteroids and Lunar Lander games, both with a decidedly thrusty bent.

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Alien 8

April 29, 2008 · Filed Under Retro Remakes News · Comment 

We are the Robots

Guess who’s back, back again? RetroSpec! Tell a friend! Yes they are here with a shiny and metallic looking remake of Alien 8, so it’s time to get your isometric groove on, Daddio! Oh yes!

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Solitaire Settlers of Catan

April 27, 2008 · Filed Under Retro Remakes News · 2 Comments 

Can we build it? Yes we can!

It must be said that I’m not a big follower of board games, with the last one I played probably being Scrabble. That being the case, even I am aware of the phenomenon that is Settlers of Catan, the tearaway success by German game designer Klaus Teuber.

If you have never heard of the game before, or you have heard of it but never had a chance to play it or give it a go then here is your chance thanks to sdetoni (of YakYak forum) and his single player vs AI version for the java computing platform of your choice.

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Asteroids

April 26, 2008 · Filed Under Retro Remakes News · Comment 

Asteroids

Ah! The classics. We were brought up on them, let’s face it, we owe our very gaming existence to them, but how often do we pay homage to the eh? How often do we get a Space Invaders clone through the door? Blue moons, that’s when. What about Pacman? It’s a rarity, admit it. Tetris? Actually……..

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Squid yes, not so octopus…

April 25, 2008 · Filed Under RR Team Blog · 7 Comments 

Squid Yes, Not So Octopus

…or something. Right, apologies for the past couple of days and the varying look of the site. Stupidly when we moved from Darren Hoyt’s excellent Mimbo template to something a little less cumbersome to post to - I rushed in and grabbed the nearest template to hand and it was, in retrospect, a bit of a daft thing to do as I hated it. Far too messy and far too cluttered.

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Mega Drops (PSP)

April 23, 2008 · Filed Under Retro Remakes News · 4 Comments 

Mega Drops

Thanks to Kojote’s PDROMS site and its latest competition, here we have a puzzler mash-up to give your homebrew enabled PSP a warm fuzzy glow inside. Taking inspiration from Puyo, Tetris Attack and the omnipresent Lumines among others, hopefully this will have something for everyone - assuming you are a puzzler fan.

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