More Crap Remakes Than Hollywood!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the front page, here comes the newsbeast with a mouthfull of slippery oil to coat your remake desires with.

Lovejoy The Remake

Down at Retro Remakes HQ they're been having a clear out of some of the News backlog, so come get some, £10 each or two for a rolo...

Want some droids in 3D? Paradroidz has been on the list a while, but it's got a flash new homepage so we thought we'd stick it out there for the Paradroid fans. It's got a bunch of new models and is looking sweeeeeet.

Fancy a nibble? Ouroboros is snake done with a nifty 3D slant in Darkbasic Pro and was one of the top entries in a recent Game Creators competition (recent in 2004 anyway). The website also contains a tribute to the Breath of Fire series of Capcom games.

Even older than Snake is Castle Adventure, a 1984 text based adventure. In a castle. The Ronseal of the remakes world!

Brian Postma's website includes a variety of old games done in a basic 3D-o-vision, including Pacman, Space Invaders, Amidar and Combat , among others. Get it while the bandwidth holds up.

It's manga, and despite it's name, it's nothing to do with sex / school girls / sex-crazed-demonic-octopi... Magical Feeling 2 sounds like a japlish pr0n, but unfortunately it's a rather nice Puyo Puyo remake . If you can figure out where lots of links named '???????' take you, check it out.

And finally, buy any of the above and get an Electrobat free! It doesn't fly about at night zapping cats for fun, but it does play a weird circular pong thing. Just try it and all will become clear...

Hey Baby, Fancy A Jump?

Fresh from my woven pouch of news comes a remake of Jumpman from Raptisoft called Hap Hazard. Yes, those crazy fellows who brought you the excellent Hamsterball have turned their hands to an old classic and dragged it by the lapels into the 21st century. Its a play in the browser lark, so just nip on over to their site and play away.

More Plumbing Mario

Lets have another Mario game. Go on, it give Nintendo's legal department some exercise. Super Mario 2.5D entails our intrepid plumber being plunged into a world of extruded sprites and 3d views. An interesting take on the Mario concept indeed. I await Mario 1.5D with much drooly chinned anticipation.

Big Ducks and Bigger Guns

In the land of the updates, the one eyed duck is king. Or at least, it wasn't one eyed until we shot it with a BFG. The eternal classic entertainment of Duck Doom has received an update to become Duck Doom Deluxe. That'll give our very own DrDerekDoctors a run for his money in the initial stakes! For those who haven't had the pleasure previously - its Duck Hunt with a flavour of Doom. The mind truly boggles.

Shock to the System

Fanboys, please form an orderly queue for a remake of System Shock in the Doom3 engine. Now, now. Calm down please, its still a work in progress but we just had to share, because we love you so much. You can find all the goodness and a few piccys to moisten your doglike noses of this remake at Citadel.

Kiss My Ass & Call Me Clive

Some of the folks over at Sinclair Heaven and the ultimate speccy archive World Of Spectrum have been hard at work putting together a rather nice read in the shape of the wonderfully named ZXShed fanzine. Its in PDF format, so Firefox users without the "save as" option should definitely right click it for fear of FF throwing a wobbly. Its a great little read. Enjoy.