Great Games on old machines and remakes

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spacefractal

Im remember this thread got trashed after the eailer forum crash, which was a excellent debat and linked some good games (Erico etc linked to a C64 game with a insane good 8-way smooth scrolling, but cant remember that game, dooh, its was a preview).

Im thinks the debate was started with this Amstrad R-Type game:
http://cpc.rtype.fr/Game_Features.html

Im also thinks Spectrum Castlevania Interlude got a word:
http://spectralinterlude.com/

On C64, the newer Prince of Persia port is pure excellent ported:
http://popc64.blogspot.dk/2011/10/prince-of-persia-for-commodore-64128.html

About the computer wars, which im known its allways end with (oops). Im personly was a pure C64 fan, mostly due the great sound its did have, and there exists good and bad games to all systems.

Even im newer liked Spectrum that much (even there is some very great games to this format), im did ported the Spectrum game, Manic Miner to Nintendo DS (named Manic Miner - The Lost Levels) to Nintendo DS. Im did the music part (about 60min music). That game was really fun to do the music and still love that game today:
http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=mmll


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mentalthink

 :good: :good: I remind this game was a first I saw in a Spectrum Zx in home of a friend.

I see you port to DS and is really nice the graphics are very good and the music jejej the "piriririr" of ZX (comes to my head), very good.
I go to comment to some guys of the RetroScene , sure they like this game.

:nw: :nw:

Ian Price

There was also brand new Bubble Bobble game on the Amstrad CPC that improved on the original port significantly.

I used to be heavily involved in pc remakes, but not so much now. The scene has pretty much dried up now.
I came. I saw. I played.

spacefractal

The Manic Miner game got a excellent review in Retro Gamer, and was made far before im went into glbasic programmering and was a remake for Nintendo DS (not PC).

Also on Commodore 64 too, there is a excellent version of the endless runner game, Canabalt, named C64anabalt.
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bigsofty

#4
Megablasters on the CPC is a great bomberman clone.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64980

Actually the full title is Megablasters : Escape From Castle In The Clouds, it's really Megablasters 2 and was released earlier this year. Great game!


Cheers,

Ian.

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erico

Here an R-type on zx spectrum type game...z-exemplar:


But it is not for the zx, it is for modern computers and portables, I think they are running a greenlit too.
The zx artifacts is well reproduced, I like it. I wonder how would today´s people react to this.

home page:
http://www.zexemplar.com/

mentalthink

Really looks nice like a ZX real, wiht the same ugly effects in the sprites.

Saure someone will do the port to a real ZX , like happends with the game of loco malito "Abaddie les morts".

Cool this post... More games...

spacefractal

Yes I'm saw that Some time ago, and I'm thinks it's look very cool and I'm also like the concept too. However it'd do might require rework and fewer sprites to suit it's cpu. But look like a cool game anyway.
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MrPlow

erico - quick question - i tried added you tube videos to form before and they did not work - what is the correct use of the youtube tag?

On games! OMG SF, there are good games on both C64 and Spectrum - C64 version of Bruce Lee and Ghostbusters and IK+ etc are games I played on a friends C64 - they were better than Speccy version but the Speccy had some cracking games!!!

A few of my favs for Speccy are:
Fairlight, JetPac, Lords of Midnight, Back to Skool, Skool Daze, R-Type, Cybernoid, Ant Attack, Star Wars, Elite, etc.

The Spectrum has the best variety as there were no hardware Sprite limits....so some great wacky games were made too!

I am doing a book at the moment with 20 spectrum basic games - hoping to release by end of Sept







Comp:
Speccy-48k, Speccy-128k, Amigas, PCs

kanonet

Quote from: MrPlow on 2015-Aug-25erico - quick question - i tried added you tube videos to form before and they did not work - what is the correct use of the youtube tag?
This way:
Code (glbasic) Select
[youtube]0NFc4brAYqM[/youtube]

BTW if you want to see how someone did write something in the forum, you can simply use the quote button and inspect the code of his post.
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bigsofty

Quote from: MrPlow on 2015-Aug-25A few of my favs for Speccy are:
Fairlight, JetPac, Lords of Midnight, Back to Skool, Skool Daze, R-Type, Cybernoid, Ant Attack, Star Wars, Elite, etc.

The Spectrum has the best variety as there were no hardware Sprite limits....so some great wacky games were made too!

Nice choices there!  :good:

Yeah, some people seem to think that something like the SNES (I'm looking at you America! :P) had most games released for it but it ran to just over 1000 games, the ZX Spectrum alone had over 10000 games released for it.
Cheers,

Ian.

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC.  As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
(E. W. Dijkstra)

spacefractal

#11
A bit off type, Here a Jason Page tune made with the software (excellent drums), made in a sidtracker 64:
https://m.soundcloud.com/noothermedicine/forth-at-here

I'm do admit in liked turrican series very much in c64 and on Amiga.

snes is a console and zx spectrum a computer. You can't compare the numbered released games for a console and a computer toghether. It's was much easier on spectrum here.
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erico

Quote from: spacefractal on 2015-Aug-25
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snes is a console and zx spectrum a computer. You can't compare the numbered released games for a console and a computer toghether. It's was much easier on spectrum here.
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Yep, specially considering a console is usually closed and a computer is open, the number of games is usually way higher on any computer.

edit: by the way, great sid tune there!

MrPlow

I highly recommend you getting a copy of

From Bedrooms To Billions - DVD documentary about UK microcomputing / games industry

Also, BBC documentary called MircoMen another classic!
Comp:
Speccy-48k, Speccy-128k, Amigas, PCs

erico

Here the c64 game with super fine scroll: