Remake Old Classics: No abandonware

[DEATH eVADER]

I went over to a few abadonware websites. An impressive list of oldies on the list. I noticed that many ideas used then were ideas being used today for other games. what if a developer remade these old games with sassy graphics, better gameplay etc. Maybe they could launch them on the anniversaries of the games original release. I like abandonware, but I get ticked off when I can't play these games on windows XP operating system.
Z was updated, why can't other games

What games do you think should be remade from the ground up

Transport Tycoon was one of the ideas I had in mind, mainly because many Tycoon games sucked big time, but this was a successful idea (If you don't remember it, it was made by the same guy who made rollercoaster tycoon and was released sometime in 1994)

 

[The Dark Elf]

Meh, be as bad as the movies, no original idea's so they just rehash old stuff.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I have been waiting for transport tycoon sequel, but the code for the sequel was used in rollercoaster Tycoon instead

 

[Kyorisu]

Transport Tycoon kicked ass, I still remember having tonnes of Maglev trains roaming around sloping hills delivering all kinds of cargo. If someone where to make a sequel I'd buy it on the spot.

 

[Kyorisu]

What about Alpha Centauri (not abandoneware to my knowledge) A remake of that would be pretty good. On second thoughts that might be bad and turn out to look just like CIV 3

 

[Brian Damage]

Well... on a similar topic, we've apparently got System Shock 3 coming... bad news is it'll probably end up being consolised...

 

[The Mullinator]

Wing Commander 1. That would be amazing if it retained the same feel as the original but with current technology.

 

[Dedalus]

I'm looking forward to seeing Firaxis's Pirates! remake, but only because it's Pirates and it's Sid Meier. Any other remake should just go die.

remake of HL1 using Source? :cheese:

 

[FictiousWill]

Buried in Time, and Lighthouse? They're myst-type games, and I'm not sure what could be done to improve them besides turn their pre-rendered worlds 3d.

 

[Dux]

Transport Tycoon kicked ass, I still remember having tonnes of Maglev trains roaming around sloping hills delivering all kinds of cargo. If someone where to make a sequel I'd buy it on the spot.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/02/news_6092788.html

 

[pat_thetic]

I loved turning on Martian landscape, then buying like thousands of those insanely fast planes Also, make the cities insanely large by funding them.

 

[MultiVaC]

Well... on a similar topic, we've apparently got System Shock 3 coming... bad news is it'll probably end up being consolised...

Really? I'm going to cry.

 

[qckbeam]

Really? I'm going to cry.

Your going to cry even harder when you see just how bad it's going to be consolizied. Just look at Thief III...I mean, Thief: Deadly Shadows.

A classic PC title, mutilated and streamlined for the console crowd. So horrible.... ;(

 

[Letters]

I could handle a remake of Planescape: Torment on a modern RPG engine...

 

[Venmoch]

Oooo Lets See here....

Body Harvest, Blast Corps and Jet Force Gemini to name three off the top of my head.

 

[Brian Damage]

Y'know what old 2D shoot-'em-up platformer I'd like to see made into an FPS (Like Duke Nukem and Metroid have been)?

Ruff 'n' Tumble.

It's got it all, the different guns, the cool enemies (Crazy-but-cute robots, called The Tinheads), the best ambient soundtrack I've ever heard on such an old game, and a main character with personality (Ruff Rogers, the marble-obsessed psychopathic pre-teen).

 

[Anthraxxx]

Commander Keen!!!!

 

[Kyorisu]

Thanks for the link Dux