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LiqMatrix

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Thought I would start a thread of classic games I loved to play that now have modern remakes. A few I have found over the years. All of them are free.

Blue Max: http://gad.art.pl/opis.php?i=352&kat=0&od=30&srt=1 (Spent hours and hours as a kid on the original with my C64.)
Stealth: http://gad.art.pl/opis.php?i=374&kat=0&od=0&srt=1 (Hard as nails. Great remake of the 8-bit game Stealth. Destroy the black obelisk!)
BeamSlider: https://www.indiedb.com/games/beamslider/downloads (An amazing remake of Beamrider from the early 80s.)
LaserSmash: https://fortyseven.itch.io/lasersmash (Remake of the Mattel Intellivision classic Astrosmash.)
Castle of Fire: https://spentertainment.webs.com/castleoffire.htm (Remake of Dragonfire from Imagic.)
Demon Attack: https://archive.org/details/attack_201511 (Remake of Demon Attack from Imagic.)
The Empire Strikes Back: https://archive.org/details/Empire_201512 (Remake of the Atari 2600 version.)
Moon Patrol - New Path: https://archive.org/details/Moon_Patrol_-_New_Path (A very good Moon Patrol remake.)
Moon Patrol: https://ptit-yok.itch.io/moon-patrol (Nope. Not seeing double. Another great remake of the game.)
Zaxxon: https://archive.org/details/ZaxxonRetroRemake_1020 (An arcade faithful remake of the game.)
Rolling Madness 3D: http://www.lucaelia.com/games.php (A very well made Marble Madness remake.)

All I have for now. Please continue this thread with your finds.
 
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LiqMatrix

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Indie Retro News just linked to a newly released Blue Max remake (demo) called 'Kind Of Blue'. Check out their post here.
 
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Not sure if this counts, as the original isn't THAT old, and the 're-make' is really the same game, with a fair bit of +++

Blue Byte's Settlers 2 ( or II, to continue the Roman connection).

I played s-II for HOURS a lot of years back, often only stopping when it started to get light next morning. The game ran perfectly on a DOS machine, but was a little problematic under WinDoze, but I have used it under XP.

There were still a LOT of fans, even after S3, 4, 5, etc. fans have now produces Settlers - Return to the Roots (RttR). The code is totally new, completely 32 or 64 bit, there is a Linux version, there are all sorts of Internet options, there are many additions within the game incl a new 'People' - the Babylonians. You need the CDs from the original game to provide most of the graphics, so RttR LOOKS just like the original S-II.

The new game is still 'being developed', so not all the options indicated are there, but the game as per the original S-II is all there, with many plusses.

Geoff
 
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Pretty big news and many of you probably already know, but hey...

May the 4th be with you!

Released today. An absolutely stunning remake of the Atari 2600 Star Wars title 'The Empire Strikes Back' for the Commodore 64. It has been 40 years since its initial release so maybe...

May the 40th be with you!

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Empire Strikes Back - C64 fan version by Megastyle

A remake of the Atari 2600 version
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One of the best, in my opinion, remakes of Resident Evil 2.

Graphics, atmosphere, story, and soundtrack. Everything is on par. The only thing - it seemed a little short, and replaying on behalf of another character conceptually did not give anything new to the game and it's sad ((

Once again, I want to clarify - this is just my opinion, I know that many people did not like the game
 
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One cannot skip:
  • OpenMW, which is an open-source Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind remake,
  • Daggerfall Unity, which is another open-source recreation of Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall game.
By the way,
danielmeyers said:
One of the best, in my opinion, remakes of Resident Evil 2.

Graphics, atmosphere, story, and soundtrack. Everything is on par. The only thing - it seemed a little short, and replaying on behalf of another character conceptually did not give anything new to the game and it's sad ((

Once again, I want to clarify - this is just my opinion, I know that many people did not like the game
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I did finish it not long time ago, and I agree, the 2nd part, 3rd and recently announced 4th part are what I consider the best kind of remakes: they recreated everything from scratch ;). The second playthrough in 2nd did add something though; some holes in the plot were filled, second part of the game was quite different, and the ending is different (2nd run enables the "real ending").
 
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I'm looking forward to a port or remake of The Black Cauldron. Disney owns the movie though and Lloyd Alexander died.
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Best I can recommend is installing it somewhere on a modern computer with dos box and pointing scummvm to the directory, it will work.
If you have 5 1/4 floppies, this might be difficult, though if you have an old computer with both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 drives and a usb 3 1/2 floppy drive, you could make legal backups of the floppies onto a 3 1/2 disk and run it on the modern computer with usb floppy drive.

Or, you could go to Al Lowe's website and download the game that way, he worked on the game and no one (not even Disney surprisingly) ever told him to stop hosting it, so I'd imagine it's legitimate.
 
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I played Elite Released 1985 ZX-Spectrum:
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Elite (1984) - MobyGames

Elite is a free-form space trading and combat simulation, commonly considered the progenitor of this sub-genre. The player initially controls a character referred to as
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and played the remake, Elite Plus Released 1991 DOS on 80286:
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Elite Plus (1991) - MobyGames

Elite Plus is a VGA remake of Bell and Braben's space trading flight simulator, Elite. It is an updated conversion of the original that features new graphics and sounds/music. The novella included with this package is different from the one that came...
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