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Dan Dare Remake

Ovine by Design has made remake of the C64 version of Dan Dare. Ovine by Design has made many retro remakes before and this one looks excellent. Great graphics and atmosphere + spooky sci-fi music really add to this one. Check out the video and …

Top games of 2007: List-tastic!

I’ve been meaning to write this for about a month, so sorry it’s a bit late ;-)

In December and January you always get people making Top 10 lists of their favourite games and I built up a collection of links to some of them as follows:

Arcade Town

ArcadeTown has made a …

Hurrican - Turrican Remake

Hurrican is an update to the well known, incredibly popular Turrican.

This game is the epitome of remakes - there has clearly been a tonne of love and attention lavished on Hurrican and it shows. The games graphics are oozing in quality and style, and it plays wonderfully. Unfortunately …

Super Obliteration

Just found a cool retro remake over on the BlitzBasic.com forums. It’s called Super Obliteration and is a remake of an Amiga Public Domain (freeware) game that I played back in the day. It’s basically a cross between Pang, Super Stardust and Turrican :-) You can …

Finished The Underside Preview.

The Underside preview is a demo of a cool new retro-style platform game that’s very similar to Cave Story by “Pixel”.

There’s some weird plot that I’ll leave to to read when you download the preview.  It doesn’t take too long to complete the preview but it’s long enough to get …

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