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[placy]

I suspect a lot of people here weren't old enough to type when Karateka, the precursor to the original Prince Of Persia,
came out on the Apple II:

http://www.gamasutra...php?story=19585

[Douglas]

placy, on July 27th 2008, 06:47 PM, said:

I suspect a lot of people here weren't old enough to type when Karateka, the precursor to the original Prince Of Persia,
came out on the Apple II:

http://www.gamasutra...php?story=19585

Yeah...I remember many a fond night playing "Karateka" on my trusty old Commodore 64....yeah...

Douglas

P.S.  remember...WALK up to the girl at the end...you've been warned...

[Buzz Bumble]

I too played Karateka in the dim distant past of Apple ][ and Commodore 64 ... not that I was any good at it. I still play it very occasionally under emulation on my Mac too.  :)

BUT, I'm extremely tired of all these remakes from Hollyweird and now starting to infect game developers. Doesn't the current generation actually have any talent or good ideas of their own?? :(

[iEvan]

I wouldn't mind current ports of all the old C64 games. Update the graphics a little, keep the same music and sounds. I'd pay $5 a pop for each of them. Just don't change the gameplay because that is what made them so much fun in the first place. Jumpman, Drol, Bubble Bobble, Bruce Lee, Ghostbusters, Spy Hunter, the list goes on.

[Janichsan]

iEvan, on July 29th 2008, 05:49 PM, said:

I wouldn't mind current ports of all the old C64 games.

Koronis Rift and Tau Ceti would be nice as remakes.

[Buzz Bumble]

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Jumpman, Drol, Bubble Bobble, Bruce Lee, Ghostbusters, Spy Hunter, the list goes on.

There is a version of Bubble Bobble for the Mac called "Bub & Bob", but I'm not sure if it's been updated to Mac OS X / Intel or not. I play it sometimes - it's one of the few games I'm any good at (I can get all the way to the last level most times, but that last level is impossible.)

There's also a sort-of version of Spy Hunter called "Reckless Drivin'" which I'm almost certain I've seen a Mac OS X version of.

As for Ghostbusters, Hollyweird are rumoured to be planning a new movie, so you might get a game out of that.

Otherwise there's emulation using Power64.  

[DaveyJJ]

Buzz Bumble, on July 29th 2008, 05:33 PM, said:

There is a version of Bubble Bobble for the Mac called "Bub & Bob", but I'm not sure if it's been updated to Mac OS X / Intel or not.

Yes it has, my friend.

[placy]

Buzz Bumble, on July 28th 2008, 06:26 AM, said:

I too played Karateka in the dim distant past of Apple ][ and Commodore 64 ... not that I was any good at it. I still play it very occasionally under emulation on my Mac too.  :)

BUT, I'm extremely tired of all these remakes from Hollyweird and now starting to infect game developers. Doesn't the current generation actually have any talent or good ideas of their own?? :(

So you're saying you wouldn't have been interested in a Mac port of, say, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time since it's just a "remake" of the original Prince of Persia side scroller?

  

[QuantaCat]

Buzz Bumble, on July 29th 2008, 11:33 PM, said:

As for Ghostbusters, Hollyweird are rumoured to be planning a new movie, so you might get a game out of that.

No new movie of Ghostbusters, but a ghostbusters game for the Wii is being produced by Dan Akroyd, and has been inofficially titled "Ghostbusters 3". The entire cast aside from Sigourney Weaver and that dark helmet guy signed on.

[Buzz Bumble]

I personally wouldn't be interested in the "new" Prince of Persia game (and expect more since Hollyweird is making a movie of it) ... not so much because it's a "remake", but because I was utterly hopeless at the two original games, especially the second one where I got extremely frustrated at getting through only a few screens and then having to start all over again.  

[Coug-it]

Revisit on this:

http://jordanmechner...ncing-karateka/