A game I'd love to see is Project-X by Team17 from the Amiga 500.

Thems were the days :-)

I truly miss Master of Magic. Once my initial game engine and project is completed, I will likely focus on a worthy successor to MoM.

I've been in my spare time trying to recreate Albion using updated sprites and actual 3D meshes for the dungeons. It's been a lot of fun so far. I just don't know if I'll ever be able to release it, when I finish it I think I might figure out who (if anyone) holds the license to it to get permission to release it as freeware, perhaps even open-source.

 

A game that I've been thinking about recreating, even plotted out it's flow and requirements, is Marble Madness for NES. Would do it in 3D instead of that funky psuedo-3D the original used.

Almost forgot the game that ate most of my youth.

 Solar Jetman for NES - wicked fun game, if someone remade that into 3D it'd probably become a best seller fast.

Though this may reveal a little too much about what I like to do in my off-hours <g>...

http://ascii.classicgaming.gamespy.com/featgame_files/pyro/pyro.html

Epic!

Many, many, years ago I wrote FOFT (federation of free traders) for the ST,Amiga, and PC.

It was in the same vein as Elite, but with a lot of extras. Landing on planets for one. I went a little mad with it. You had a computer on board your spacecraft which you could program (in a language I called SIMPLE). You could even write games on it, so you could play space invaders on the computer in the spacecraft while the docking computer completed final approach to a space station.

Mad I know.

Made me very unpopular with Braben, but hey that's life.

Several times I have thought about coming back to it, bit there are several very good space opera type games out there and so far I haven't come across anything they are really missing that would justify all the effort involved in re-writing it today.

 

 

 

 I would love to see a jazzed up remake of Flashback and Another world. these games took up so much of my time when i was younger.

A HD version of Dizzy would also be an incredible addition to XBLA.

I never played FOFT... but I've been wishing for a game like Elite (only modernized) for quite some time.... what other games out there now are like this?  I haven't seen a decent space combat game since X-Wing/Tie Fighter which of course were just space combat games... not open ended with trading, interplanetary travel, etc.     Would be great if there was something written in that vein today with modern 3d graphics, and more features that the computers back in the day this came out just couldn't do.  

You could make a new version of Transport Tycoon... or X-Wing

jdport:

I never played FOFT... but I've been wishing for a game like Elite (only modernized) for quite some time.... what other games out there now are like this?  I haven't seen a decent space combat game since X-Wing/Tie Fighter which of course were just space combat games... not open ended with trading, interplanetary travel, etc.     Would be great if there was something written in that vein today with modern 3d graphics, and more features that the computers back in the day this came out just couldn't do.  

Startport: Galactic Empires looks like what you're talking about.

 

Another vote for Battletoads (the arcade version, not the NES one) and XCOM - UFO Defense

I would also like to see Cabal or Forgotten Worlds remade too.

Stainless:

Many, many, years ago I wrote FOFT (federation of free traders) for the ST,Amiga, and PC.

It was in the same vein as Elite, but with a lot of extras. Landing on planets for one. I went a little mad with it. You had a computer on board your spacecraft which you could program (in a language I called SIMPLE). You could even write games on it, so you could play space invaders on the computer in the spacecraft while the docking computer completed final approach to a space station.

Mad I know.

Made me very unpopular with Braben, but hey that's life.

Several times I have thought about coming back to it, bit there are several very good space opera type games out there and so far I haven't come across anything they are really missing that would justify all the effort involved in re-writing it today.

 
 

 

Federation of Free Traders was an awesome game! I used to love this on my Amiga, like I loved Elite on my Spectrum before that!

 

Eve Online on the PC is a kind of a modern-day version of Elite (massively multiplayer online game with 250,000 players/subscribers containing 5000 solar systems, but with a less hands-on approach to flying the ship).   http://www.eve-online.com

 

I'd like to see some of the SimCity games, especially SimCity 2000, remade in XNA.  The first version of Lemmings for Windows 95 would be cool to see in XNA.

Javafox:

The first version of Lemmings for Windows 95 would be cool to see in XNA.

I'll second that. I loved the original. Hated the 3D versions. Would love to see a 2D Lemmings.

 

David Hunt:

Javafox:

The first version of Lemmings for Windows 95 would be cool to see in XNA.

I'll second that. I loved the original. Hated the 3D versions. Would love to see a 2D Lemmings.

Sorry to say but the Amiga versions of almost every game in this list were so much better than the PC ones, mostly because the hardware at the time just wasn't up to it, and now we have XNA it would be simple to redo them. Why aren't you all making your own homage to the games you once loved?

 

MORT 8088:

Why aren't you all making your own homage to the games you once loved?

 

Who says we aren't? ;-)

David Hunt:

MORT 8088:

Why aren't you all making your own homage to the games you once loved?

Who says we aren't? ;-)

*looks around* fair point ;-)

Here's a good tutorial I found for Pixel Art for games like SimCity.

Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy (The first 3D Gauntlet)

I would love to see another 3D Gauntlet game released that stuck to its roots, unlike Gauntlet:Seven Sorrows for the original Xbox

Somebody mentioned Archon. I loved that game. Here's an idea (not mine, but I can't remember where I saw it): Archon with the battles in a full 3D environment. I think that would be pretty sweet.

I remember playing a game where you ran through an obstacle course. It was kind of a psuedo-3d 'forward scroller' where the character could move left and right and the track scrolled towards the player a la Pole Position.You had to jump over obstacles, run over power ups, etc. Wish I could remember the name of it. It was a lot of fun.

Rock and Roll Racing. "Let the carnage begin!"

How about Adventure Construction Set?

2D versions of 3D games: Doom or Quake as a platformer or top-down multiplayer battles.

Lemmings started out as a graphics exercise.

They set a challenge to their graphics artists to see how small they could make a sprite and still animate it. At the end the results were so good they decided to make a game out of it.

I was actually in the office when they came to pick up their first royalty check, a touch over £1 million.

There was another one due in a couple of days for about £900,000, but they were told they would have to wait a few days for that. ;>

 

 

Luhar:

I remember playing a game where you ran through an obstacle course. It was kind of a psuedo-3d 'forward scroller' where the character could move left and right and the track scrolled towards the player a la Pole Position.You had to jump over obstacles, run over power ups, etc. Wish I could remember the name of it. It was a lot of fun.

Sounds like Bounder

 

 

MORT 8088:

Why aren't you all making your own homage to the games you once loved?

I loved Gauntlet. Now that it's been re-released, it sucks, and I don't play it.

I loved Tempest. Without the heavy spinning control wheel, it sucks, and I don't play it.

I loved Ultimate Universe. It was a multiplayer text-based BBS door game with a learning curve of a month or more, and nobody today would play it.

The games we once loved exist in a certain special place, where we loved them not just because of what they were, but because of who we were when we played them. Gauntlet was special to me because it was a great group thing to play in the college cafeteria; without the crowd of people waiting for a turn around the console, it's not the same. Tempest was special to me because of the "flow state" I could achieve with it; the spinning control wheel was important to that, and without it, I just can't get there. Ultimate Universe was special to me because only a select few people from my BBS (which had a lot of smart people on it) would even try to play, so it was like a little elite group - even outside the game, you recognised the people who played, and knew they were a special kind of person.

But I bought the rights to UU, because it was awesome, and I think it could be resuscitated with the right team and the right publisher.

Great post!  How about Mario or Sonic?  I've been dying for a really good, easy-to-understand, video tutorial on a platformer game.  Maybe I'll make one someday! :)

I am new to XNA and have been viewing the forums lately.  I would eventually like to do a remake of my favorite game of all time,  Buck Rogers:  Count Down to Doomsday for the sega genesis.  Anyone ever play it?