Old favorites you'd like to see remade. =)

[skribe]

Just browsing down through here I see some old computer favorites listed as potential games and some of the best games currently out seem to be clones of old games as well (RifleSLUGs for instance)

That got me thinking of all the old games I'd like to see made or cloned to play on the road, what are yours?

My list is...

Warcraft - I'd kill for warcraft!
Railroad Tycoon, Transport Tycoon - Anyone remember either? =)
Sierra Quest games - ScummVM is so cool hehe
Cannon Fodder
and Wolfenstein 3D

Hypothitcal list of course I realize all of the licensing problems and such, but its fun to think about anyway. =)

[rhart00]

seirra quest games
a good jezzball clone
scorch (scorched earth) that works on os5
simcity 2000
civilization
advance wars (from GBA)
ultima

It could go on forever, but that is all I can think of off the top of my head right now.

[Rannous]

Civilization
Master of Orion
Ultima II
Warlords II

and for really old school:

Earth Orbit Stations

[filegrabber]

SCRAMBLE
SIMPLE FLIGHT SIMULATOR

[TheSpies]

I would love to see Stars! made for the Clie, it would be perfect on a handheld.

[wnm]

Commander Keen and Duke Nukem.

[rhart00]

Originally posted by wnm
Commander Keen

I totally forgot about this game. I used to play it all the time

[Noodles Hovar]

How about more bejeweled clones, tetris and concentration? NOT!


Star Raiders!

[nevarDeath]

yes! commander Keen! I started on a clone a while back, but I gave up after a while cause I lost intrest

[timewaster77]

I would love to see the SNES game Super Mario World to be recoded for Palm OS 5. I know that the ROM could be emulated with an emulator but recoding the entire game would make it run faster and be designed for the smaller screen.

[Tixx]

Any Marios
PitFall

[skeezix]

Originally posted by filegrabber
SCRAMBLE
SIMPLE FLIGHT SIMULATOR

I'll probably be adding Scramble support to XCade :)

jeff

[TheUltimate]

hmm Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, Masters of the Orion, Warcraft....

[Argh]

Super Mario -- I NEED IT.

[TheSpies]

How about sim city 2000? not the crappy old version we already have. Ziosoft made it for the ppc but i doubt they would do the same for palmos as they seem to have given up on palm.

[totisgr]

Bubble Bobble and Pang.... Altime favorites. I spent tons of my granfathers money on these two arcades....

[yOyOYoo]

Megaman - from NES
Contra Series - from NES
A decent Tetris game (haven't found one I liked)
Sonic the Hedgehog (comeon Sega I know you can do it!)
Any other first person shooter besides Master Thief! (I can't stand the controls on that game -esp. needing to use the stylus!)
Golden Axe - from Genesis

there are plenty more but I cant thinkof them right now.

[utah]

Why waste time naming all the games? Just to put it short as we all want,

Make an NES/SNES Game Gear, Genesis, etc emulator for the Palm OS.

[Zork]

TheSpies, SimCity 2000 wont be possible, cause Sim City 2K were the first game which were done for SVGA only (means 640 * 480). If Maxis would have thought that this game is playable with VGA resolution (320 * 200) it would have supported that resolution too.
Thats why the PPC version is completely useless, cause the small screen segment makes it simply unplayable.
Some kewl idea for a no fighting strategy game surely would be to get a 320 * 240 or even better 480 * 320 version of Sim City itself or perhaps something like Railroad Tycoon.

[Zork]

utah, emulation is limited and redone version always looks better. Think bout real Sim City or Railroad Tycoon with 16 bit graphx. Would be amazing IMHO.

[Mas]

DOPE WARS!..Id love the Palm verion to emulate aspects of the PC version. Being able to get different weapons and warnings when there are potential drug busts would make the gameplay much higher. A few graphics wouldnt hurt at all either.

[Mas]

And any games that was playable on the Commodore 64. Dont need to emulate it because the Clie already has enough power to run them (i hope im right)

[ryber]

Originally posted by rhart00
a good jezzball clone


Try Crazyball (http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?&prodID=14425)

My list:

Oregon Trail
Commander Keen
Duke Nukem
a good Jeopardy game

[jwittman]

Clue - the board game

[Uncle Tom]

Speaking of Old CBM64 Classics:

Space Taxi
Master of the Lamps
Donald Ducks Playground

That would be it... :-)

[Rick 098]

sim city origonal for os5,sim city2000 for os5,sim city 3000 for os5,(thet have sim city 4 out now),and all would have to run of a mem stick wth no problems. also hi-res+ would be eccental.

[tsuribito]

Starcraft
Wolfenstein 3D
Wing Commander/ X-wing *we need a good space shooter*

[IamKelso]

Definetly these:
Master of Orion
Master of Magic
X-COM: UFO Defense
Commander Keen
Wolf 3d
Duke Nukem
Raptor

[jimod]

ZORK!!!!!

Damn i'm old

[TheSpies]

you can already play Zork and other text adventures. You need Frobnitz.

http://member.newsguy.com/~hangard/frobnitz/

you can download the pc versions of Zork 1-3 + undiscovered underground (legally) from:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/

Inside the PC versions are the story files that can be converted for use on the Clie.

[Zork]

Rick, are you thinking Maxis released Sim City 2000 as one of the first SVGA only games (means 640 * 480) for nothing ? Sim City 2000 aint possible on PDAs til this resolution is reached. Otherwise you just get a completely useless slideshow with a fraction of the needed game area displayed like the trial at the PPC platform.
But there were more then enoguh awesome 320 * 240 games which could be proted directly.

[jimod]

Thank you Spies. Thank You very much, already installed and playing them again, thank you

[MadBob]

MoonCresta! MoonCresta! MoonCresta!

[mbriody]

Chuckie Egg!

[sonyN8]

Donkie Kong
Rampage

...please!!

[jimod]

Ok, maybe wanting the zork games was BAAAAD, i have that Treasures of infocom, i was able to redo most of them for the Palm, and now i have Leather Goddesses of Phobos, its gonna cost me my job, prolly my marriage.

But I got my kid that new Gameboy, so he is gonna stay with me if she kicks me out in the next few weeks, lol

[pkostrze]

Personally, I'd like to see more CRPGs for the PDA market... the long term playability really helps when you have chunks of time to kill. I'd like to see SSIs gold box series Forgotten Realms games ported over... the graphics really would translate pretty well, or so it would seem.

Also, SSIs fantast/ strategy game Dark Legions would be killer on a PDA.

[orol]

definitely civilization (which is on the road hopefully) and horeos of might and magic (which is also on the road)
and it would be be _great_ feature to allow to play those over IR/bluetooth .. or maybe hot seat mode :o)

[orol]

well and i almost forget => transport tycoon deluxe would be GREAT ! but come to think of it, there is no ppc version yet, i really doubt there will be any palm os version at all ...

[Berto2112]

I agree with skribe that an engine emulator for the old Sierra Adventure games (in ScummVM style) would be awesome. It seems to me that all the old ones are running on the same engine....and a lot of the old ones are only VGA. A ScummVM-type port for these games would be awesome...and I could dig out all these old Sierra games I have collecting dust in my house (I'd just have to figure out how to get some of those from 5.25" floppy to my hard drive.....) So, if anyone's feeling saucy....there's a project for ya. :D

[Beavis]

Berto2112

A neighbor!!! I work in Wethersfield, and live in Rocky Hill

[Berto2112]

Wow...cool. In a forum with people from all over (like UK and Malaysia, etc) it's cool to see someone nearby.

[killah fury]

My Top Three Most Wanted Games to be ported to Palm OS

01. Hired Guns
02. Sensible World of Soccer / Sensible Soccer
03. SSX / SSX Tricky

[muppetdog]

SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like the ORIGINAL 1980s black-and-white Mac game by Broderbund. wish i could play it on my T615-C.

[soybomb]

Dare I say it?
Bandit Kings of Ancient China.
Yeah, I need a classic Koei-style adventure...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=94

[sonnypatrick]

cannon fodder and scorched earth. it would be cool to play scorched over bt or ir.

[Unregistered]

BTW talking about Infocom, you just NEED to play "A Mind Forever Voyaging", I mean, you just HAVE to!

Learn more about it here: http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/amfv/amfv.html

As for the games I would like to see ported:
Jagged Alliance (original and Deadly Games)
Master of Orion (Original)
SIERRA games!

[noktoto]

PalmOS 4:
Another World
Warcraft I

PalmOS 5 devices with 480x320 (landscape mode) screens:
Syndicate I
Need for Speed I
X-Wing
Quake I & II
Warcraft II
Starcraft
Alone in Dark I & II

[XeBIKr]

Magic Carpet. There's nothing like flying around throwing lightning or meteors from your finger tips. Or casting a spell and seeing a huge chasm open up in front of you.

[r2d]

Does any remember Quest for Glory (1-2-3-4-5-6)?

I loved that game:)

[JackAxe]

Zelda Wind Waker, but only for PALM OS 4 since 5 wouldn't be able to handle it.

<]=)

[MonkeyK]

I will not shoot as high as others in this thread. I'd love to see:

-The Ancient Art of War
-The Ancient Art of War at Sea

-Fallout (I'd even settle for it's predecessor who's name eludes me)

OK, maybe I will shoot a little high:
-Creatures (would be excellent on a PDA)

[acoustyx86]

only one game, hyperblade :) not that anyone has probably heard of it

[IamKelso]

Originally posted by MonkeyK
I will not shoot as high as others in this thread. I'd love to see:

-The Ancient Art of War
-The Ancient Art of War at Sea

-Fallout (I'd even settle for it's predecessor who's name eludes me)

OK, maybe I will shoot a little high:
-Creatures (would be excellent on a PDA)


Fallout's predecessor was the '88 game Wastelands

[JackAxe]

Hey did anybody play Buck Rogers on the Genisis? The PC counter part sucked, but the console version rocked, this would be a cool game for the Clie'. It was an old school RPG.

<]=)

[darhorn]

one game that I would love to see on the Palm is Swarm. I was on astrawares site, and noticed that Richochet is made by reflexive, so I stopped by their site and see that the aslo make swarm... this would be a very fun game for the palm, though high paced...

Since Astraware is working with Reflexive, it could even be in the works..

[Drunkard]

ZDoomZ - Runs perfectly, DooM rocks!
ZHexen - Runs very well, transient errors
Duke3D - Port only works with demo files, early/buggy beta stage
ZQuake - Too much for my T|E but a cool technology showcase
LJP - Long John Palm, emulates SNES, NES, GameBoy, Genesis, GameGear, Master System, and more... Wow! Still a bit buggy. Genesis, SNES are slow on my T|E, but NES works great.
GuineaPig - Emulates TurboGrafx/PCEngine, Sega Genesis, Gamegear, Master System, Atari 2600. Military Madness scrolling is broken, arrgghh!
World - Civilization clone, in development, very early

Simcity2000 on a SNES is emulated in LJP. World is looking to be a good Civilization type game for the Palm platform.

ZDoomZ, ZHexen, ZQuake, and Duke3D in particular are amazing achievements in porting PC games from DOS to the POS. Duke3D needs some bugs fixed but if ZQuake is any indication, it should be a perfect port. Hopefully the full game files will work in a future release. Being limited to the demo levels is crap, but more important some bugs need to be fixed, notably one with the brightness.

I also have some other games:
Bejeweled 2 (registered), Space Trader, Prison, Scrabble (registered), Chess Deluxe (registered), Sol Free, Solitair Unlimited: Additions, Black Jack, vPoker, Lights Out, Vexed, Blocks

[CroCo]

I would be happy to see:
- Star Control 1 & 2 (space trader merged with plazmoids as a melee-combat similar to star control would be awesome)
http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/

- definitely civilization 2 or colonization
- elite (again space trader merged with shattered worlds as the combat/traveling engine would be nice)

[CroCo]

Got one more I would like to see:
PIRATES!
That should actually be possible to run on a palm!

[Drunkard]

What was that game where you had limited pieces of machines, like gears and pulleys, but even cool things like flame throwers, light bulbs and all sorts of things you had to make a machine with. It was awesome on Win95 but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called. Would be a great game on a touch-screen.

[theodore.carras]

If I remember correctly, the PC version of that game was called The Incredible Machine. You're in luck, because there's something similar (though not quite as good) available for Palm, called the Amazing World Game (urrrgh, what a bad name). Here's the link: http://www.amazingworldgame.com/.

[Drunkard]

Yeah, stupid name, but that looks pretty much like what I remembered. Neat.

Thanks for the link.

[Arc Light]

Hey yOyOYoo you listed MegaMan. See this link for a free emulator to play MegaMan http://www.codejedi.com/bor/

I would love to see an old arcade game called "Gyrus" ported to the Palm. it was a space shooting game where your ship would fly in a circle around the screen as astroids, alien ships etc came from the center of the screen out.

[Legodude522]

What about StarCraft? There was a concept made by someone which was cool. There is also WarFare which is kinda like StarCraft.

[Drunkard]

Screen size limits. It would have to be re-coded for Palm OS. Copyright Blizzard so would have to pay them... Just play Panzer, it's wicked cool after my initial play through. I love the Iraq mission, hilarious. RTS though like Warfare but not sucky would be cool. Need better OS, linux maybe, to get a nice big multi-threaded online hand-held war game, RTS style with quick command strokes for building units and stuff like that, wifi or even bluetooth networking for multiplayer. Drooling thinkin about the game Total Annihilation, that would rock the casbah on a hand-held.