Beast Invaders 2

By: Tim

On: November 3rd, 2006

Description:

Beast Invaders is a hack of Space Invaders. This hack was created by Jeff “Yak” Minter, who’s been creating games for various platforms since the early 80s and is probably best known in the Atari community for his work on the Atari Jaguar. Currently obsessed with giraffes.

What’s different:

Enemy sprites have been changed into cute, furry animals.

Beast Invaders 2:

Not Jet Set Willy Online. (DAMN!)

Operation Block

By: Tim

On: October 31st, 2006

I suppose people enjoy making stuff out of Lego blocks. There are even casual games featuring Lego blocks.

But… an Operation Wolf remake with Lego pieces?

Innovation never ceases to amaze.

Happy Halloween!

(Source: Retro Remakes)

Spindizzy Remake

By: Tim

On: October 31st, 2006

No, not the one by the twins. Imagine Marble Madness but with exploration as it’s central theme, and the world pictured above as your playground.

Martin’s remake of this classic C64 game will feature:
– Full 3D OpenGL graphics

– Original game map plus new ones

– Isometric and first-person viewpoint

– Original and new soundtrack

The game will be released sometime in February 2007 as open source for Linux, Windows and MacOS X with a map editor included.

I, Mario

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: October 23rd, 2006

Real quick — GameSetWatch brought this to my attention, and I think it’s pretty darn cool. (At least on paper.)

I, Mario is a community driven, brutally realistic re-imagining of the Super Mario universe that was sparked by a hypothetical writeup on the OC ReMix boards by interesting and probably Irish guy Shael Riley.

Check out the I, Mario Wiki and the Official I, Mario Forum for thought provoking concept art, discussion, and an ever growing design. Don’t hesitate to get involved if you have something to add! I’d love to see this project go all the way, though there are numerous potential roadblocks on the horizon.

There’s an interview with Shael over at GSW that does a better job explaining things just begging to be read.

Digest and discuss!

EDIT: Upon digging deeper into the wiki and forum, I’ve found just as much misguided, fan-fictiony garbage as cool, thought-provoking concepts. But it’s still early on, yeah?

(Source: GameSetWatch)

Custom Wars

By: Albert Lai

On: September 29th, 2006

What do we have here? Why, another attempt to fan-make a sequel (whether spiritual
or otherwise) of Advance Wars! It’s named Custom
Wars by the way. I couldn’t fit the previous statement without causing the
sentence to lose its impact.

So far it has done something that nintey percent of internet projects have
not done – make an alpha version! To be true, the interface is a bit
ugly, but new units and new COs are already playable – and made in Java, to
boot.

Lots of creative talent has gone into the making of Custom Wars (via a anyone-can-contribute-style of submissions. It could be you!), and it’ll
be awesome for fans of one of the most enjoyable and addictive TBS games —
if it makes it all the way to the final version without being Cease and Desisted.

Oh hell! Knock on wood!

Episode 2 is ‘ere

By: Tim

On: September 11th, 2006

A new episode of The Arsecast is out, reviewing games that I’m too lazy to write about properly. (Thanks!)

Each episode is just like The Godfather, complete with swearing, shooting and bad apples.

And yes, version A is worth fifty quid on eBay now.

Tim W Reviews 73 Games in One Weekend

By: Derek Yu

On: September 9th, 2006

…a number surpassed only by the amount of times he got laid that same weekend.

No seriously, we bow to you, Tim W!

[Link]

Retro Remakes Compo Entries

By: Shabadage

On: August 31st, 2006

Well, another Retro Remakes Competition has ended (kinda). While the final judging results won’t be avaliable for some time (December according to the site); the entries are all up for download.

The magic number sits at 73, yes, 73 entries into this year’s compo. That’s 73 more reasons to visit The Retro Remakes Homepage than usual.

Or you lazy people can just hit this link to get a look at all the wonderfully juicy, deleciously sweet, and oh so much fun remakes.

I apologize for the lack of a picture with this news post; but it’s rather late, and I don’t have the brainpower to muck about with pictures at the moment. Just use your imagination. [I added one for you! -Derek]

Retro Remakes Competition

By: Tim

On: August 10th, 2006

JIG’s flashy game competition. Are you guys excited about playing flash games all day long? So many competitions to write about…

But let’s begin with the Retro Remakes Competition, a contest consisting of entrants mostly in their 30s (and serious enough to code until the end). I mean, look at the list of entries. I’ll attempt to play every single entry but there’s no possible way for me to write about all of them. No, sir. 150 games! Madness, these old fogies.

Perhaps I’ll talk about one, since I’m in the mood to mention some shmups today. Just a sampler of the flood of games to come. A remake featuring Vic Viper, yes…

Well, there’s no demo yet so we just have to be content with gawking at the limited screenshots. Looking pretty faithful, I must say. And if you’re thinking that it’s just another Gradius remake, note that it’s done by the guys from Ovine by Design – master of remakes. I suppose we can expect reasonable quality from them. Plus that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

push push penguin still fine, now online

By: dessgeega

On: July 29th, 2006

black cat’s pengo-inspired push-push penguin just received an update – one which includes an online high score table.

it’s a very swell game which adds bubble bobble-ish collection elements and charming sprites from army of trolls to sega’s original pushing penguin game. and it has cooperative two-player play, too-often lacking in contemporary games. if that doesn’t win your heart, i will sweeten the deal: both of the players are penguins.