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Warewolf <warewol...@shaw.ca> writes:

> What are some of your 'old school' favorites? (These can include games for 
> the Apple ][, C=64, Amiga and other personal computers)

I've been reading the Commodore history book starting last week (or
kinda rereading since I've been reading the second edition,
http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0973864966.)
Some fond gaming memories from that era but not that much.

Paradroid is one I've been thinking about recently. There was an update
on the Amiga and a free version "Freedroid" has been around but I
haven't tried either. I remember I was also impressed by the old Space
Taxi with the speech and all back then but it's so long ago. Perhaps the
biggest wow effect were the first coin-op games I saw. Battle Zone,
Centipede, Tempest, Asteroids Deluxe, Gravitar, Jungler, Kangaroo,
Pengo...

When I played some old C64 games in emulators years ago, usually the
graphics were rather off-putting. With arcade games usually the graphics
weren't so bad but the simplistic gameplay didn't grab me that much.

> Should any of these classic titles get a(nother) remake or get tweaked to 
> work with modern operating systems? (Note: I am aware that there are 
> emulators available) ^_^

I dunno. I think I'd like some of the old PC stuff more than the 80s
stuff. I wouldn't mind a really modernized X-Wing for example. The old
Windows version was a cheap update. They just updated the in-game vector
graphics to run at 640x480 but bitmap stuff (like the cockpit overlays)
were just scaled so they looked awful.

I remember thinking back then with both X-Wing and Tie Fighter that it
would be cool if you could have a more tactical role in the game so that
if you sent fighters to do something it would actually get done with
some degree of proficiency by your fellow pilots... Way stronger AI in
other words. Especially X-Wing was bad, I think Tie Fighter had somewhat
better AI.

I guess there'll be more Star Wars games and movies coming out but I
doubt Disney will do much good with the franchise.

> If you'd prefer a remake, should any extra features (ie a level editor) be 
> added?

Including a level editor is always good IMO.