Retro games that should be re-released

Knowlesy · 9 Feb 2005, 17:48 (Ref:1221142)

Boy was I surprised to see this game in town the other day: Sonic Mega Collection. Basically, it is a collection of pretty much all the Sonic The Hedgehog games that were ever released on most of the Sega platforms.

I immediately withdrew the final 20 quid in my bank account (the £20 that was reserved for my workers union payments

) and bought this. The memories came flooding back, i went on a glorious nostalgia trip and I clambered into the loft to get some of my old issues of "Sonic The Comic".

I think these re-releases are a fabulous idea! Why don't games companies do more of these?

I can think of hundreds of retro games to re-release. I'd particularly like to see a release of the Amiga motorcycling game "No Second Prize" or even "The adventures of Dizzy the egg": they could even make the game jam up if you go too high in the sky like it used to on the Amiga! hehehe.......bring back old games!

Raven · 10 Feb 2005, 00:09 (Ref:1221502)

Remember Power Drift? I'd like to play that again.

Streets of Rage, Golden Axe (do they still make games like that?).

b1ackcr0w · 10 Feb 2005, 00:54 (Ref:1221526)

There was a game about 6 or 7 years ago on the PC called "Ignition". It was a sort of top down racer done in a very effective cartoon style. It was very playable with a well worked out physics engine that gave a good impression of speed. That would be well worth releasing on a budget label for £5.

ASCII Man · 10 Feb 2005, 00:59 (Ref:1221528)

Street Fighter 1 & 2
All the early Zelda games!
X-Com: UFO Defense!

**Aysedasi** · 10 Feb 2005, 08:18 (Ref:1221684)

I was a great fan of Sonic, I must admit. Had a Mega-Drive and then a Saturn.

Chris Y · 10 Feb 2005, 10:25 (Ref:1221791)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raven

Remember Power Drift? I'd like to play that again.

You still can, if you know where to look. I'll just say "MAME", and leave it at that.

I actually had a go with Power Drift a while back, but didn't enjoy it so much. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

I had a bit of a nostalgia trip a while ago, started playing games like Wizball and Super Stardust again

They don't games like they used to..

Rich R · 10 Feb 2005, 18:33 (Ref:1222212)

super monaco grand prix, the original, where you could pick a driver to be a rival and if you beat him twice in races you would replace him at his team.
also there was a fantastic f1 game for the mega drive, even though it was released in the mid 90's the circuits were still in their 80's configuration, hockenheim didn't even have a chicane at the ostkurve, plus there was no magny cours it was the full paul ricard instead.

Hazza · 12 Feb 2005, 13:31 (Ref:1223693)

mmm...SuperMonaco GP has a better career mode than most of the moden ones.

They should redom Elite-2. I mean, ffs. It's not hard to see that it'd be a lisecence to print money.

Oh, and re-do one of thoose old F1 games with a track editor. track editors are cool, that's why I bought trackmania

BootsOntheSide · 12 Feb 2005, 15:14 (Ref:1223743)

I'm a general retro-games nerd - I even contribute to the www.mobygames.com site's archive of information about old games. Seeing names like No Second Prize and Super Stardust certainly brings a smile to my face. Personally I'd love to see someone remake Crazy Cars 3 with newer technology - the structure fo that one was superb, with a real strategic element in choosing which races to do as well as the betting section, which is probably the best I've ever seen in a racer.

racer69 · 13 Feb 2005, 07:51 (Ref:1224096)

Street Rod 2

Vicki · 13 Feb 2005, 08:41 (Ref:1224114)

*prepares sheild in case of bullets* GPL...with better graphics and stuff. And not really a remake, but can anyone give me the titles of any decent Le Mans sim?

dangermouse · 14 Feb 2005, 15:29 (Ref:1225235)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FerrariFanatic

*prepares sheild in case of bullets* GPL...with better graphics and stuff.

You must try all the latest addons for it. You'd be surprised.

ASCII Man · 14 Feb 2005, 16:13 (Ref:1225302)

Quote:

Originally Posted by racer69

Street Rod 2

A 3-D Street Rod!!

And it's in development!
http://www.streetrod3.com/dev.php

Chris Y · 15 Feb 2005, 10:19 (Ref:1226003)

I downloaded that Street Rod3 a while back, but sadly it's not been developed any further for a couple of years. I doubt whether much will come of it, sadly. I loved the original Street Rod

On a similar note - there was a 'new' Stunt Car Racer floating around the net a while back - was very similar to the original, but also allowed multi player. Sadly that was in the early stages of developement too, and looks to be dead. I wish Crammond would re-vamp that game for modern computers.

maximus · 15 Feb 2005, 18:21 (Ref:1226459)

Yeah that was a classic game!

ASCII Man · 15 Feb 2005, 22:15 (Ref:1226613)

I still have both Streetrod games stuffed away in a box somewhere!
Must dig those up tomorrow...

Knowlesy · 15 Feb 2005, 22:51 (Ref:1226642)

Got myself two volumes of the Midway Arcade series on X-Box today.

Games range from good to awful. Still, it has the immortal Paperboy!

MikeHoyer · 16 Feb 2005, 02:27 (Ref:1226758)

A new Frontier/Elite game would be awesome.

**Aysedasi** · 17 Feb 2005, 09:24 (Ref:1228000)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FerrariFanatic

*prepares sheild in case of bullets* GPL...with better graphics and stuff. And not really a remake, but can anyone give me the titles of any decent Le Mans sim?

There is no decent Le Mans sim.

In the sense of a sim that you can install and run straight away. The old Infogrammes games was desperately bad and no-one has comew up with anything else yet. Yes, I know you can run at Le Mans in the F1C mods, in SCGT even in the Nascar Heat mods, but no-one seems able or willing to produce a decent Le Mans sim.

By the way, I remember the AS Super Monaco GP sim for the Megadrive. I drove it for hours upon hours..... Could never get around Monaco (some things never change) but I always enjoyed Ayrton coming to shake my hand at the end when I beat him to the championship......

Knowlesy · 17 Feb 2005, 10:31 (Ref:1228047)

Hehhe.....I still have that. Must dig that out of the loft this weekend!

MikeHoyer · 17 Feb 2005, 12:43 (Ref:1228177)

Actually, yeah a "proper" Le Mans sim would be awesome.

pirenzo · 17 Feb 2005, 23:08 (Ref:1228851)

agreed

The infrogrammes game was desperately poor...

Rich R · 18 Feb 2005, 02:32 (Ref:1228941)

the dreamcast version of le mans wasn't so bad. it did have the full circuit la sarthe unlike the pc version. no damage on it though

MikeHoyer · 18 Feb 2005, 03:05 (Ref:1228953)

I think the PC version has the full version. It's just a very poor representation.

pirenzo · 18 Feb 2005, 11:10 (Ref:1229215)

Yeah, I definitely remember there being a full Le Mans track (with Bugatti too)

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