Ripten's Sam Naylor explores the idea that remakes should be much less prevalent as developers focus on original IPs, rather than securing success with older ones.
“As a reimagining of a classic 2D platformer, Rocket Knight remains one of my favourite modern examples of the genre so let's see why.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
The upcoming Cronela's Mansion will launch on Switch, NES, Game Boy and SNES, with the latter now set to receive physical cartridges.
Atari has acquired Intellivision. The company announced today that it had acquired its long-time rival, ending one of the original console rivalries, dating back to the 1970s.
Wow.... two of my earliest gaming platforms. All they need is Coleco to round things out.
This is like Nintendo buying SEGA.
YES! Colecovision was my start! I came to know Mario there in Donkey Kong before the NES was even a thing. :)
Yes such fond memories. My first was the odyssey, but I really started gaming on my colecovision. Had atari and intelivision but coleco was by far the best of the bunch to me.
Good piece of history here.
edit: I wanted to read it but the cookies pop up is stopping me.
This was just before my time. I do remember my mom's friend having one all dusty in her apartment back in the day.
[R.I.P.} Ms. Irene
People forget that console wars are part of the history of this industry. The console wars were started by competitive companies all the way back then and continued through Sega vs Nintendo, Jaguar/3DO/NeonGeo, and PlayStation vs Nintendo and Xbox.
These companies are across oceans and competing for the same business. These companies created the console wars, not crazy fanboys.
Console wars are fun. It's fun to be a fanboy too. I don't get what's wrong with any of this as entertainment.
Young kid school yard banter was fun. 30-40+ year olds still doing it is just disturbing. Many my age (50+) grew out of that a long time ago. We may still have our preferences, but we also embrace a more central position because there is a lot to enjoy on a wide range of genres and systems.
You'll understand one day and then things will forever change.
@Darth
Yes, I'd like to think 'we' take a central position most of the time, at work, at the grocery, mundane interactions in the world, with our health habits, and so on. Sure, reaching the Aristotelian middle is a great thing, but so is having a few hobbies in which we don't have to be this way, and as long as there's transparency, which is key, they can be considered a category of 'socially acceptable' fun not completely limited to age. Of course, there are extreme circumstances, but to blanket the whole idea of fun with only extreme cases and age is a bit juvenile.
Also, as I've been doing this living thing, I've found that age isn't a necessary perquisite for wisdom, though, it does affect taste.
@Shin
Mario pulled me in, but Mega Man hooked me. We even used to LARP it. Good 'ol days.
The only thing back then was that the game would still appear on competing platforms.
Remember the Coleco Vision could play Atari2600 games via an Expansion modude.
I had both. Snafu on Intellivision was addicting as hell. Also had Colecovision which had Time Pilot. Combat was probably my favorite Atari game and both Atari and Intellivision had similar games like Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. It’s been so long I don’t really remember which game I liked bettter out of those but I did play my Intellivision a bit more than Atari though I’m not sure why besides Snafu. That was 40+ years ago damn I’m old lol
Ahh you're making me all nostalgic! Not old enough to have played these on original hardware but my first console was a bootleg console from Costco that had a bunch of intellivision and atari games. Then had a lot of fun with intellivision and atari collections on ps1 and 2.
Snafu was one of my favourite games and me and my partner still occasionally play it to this day
Remakes are a crowd-pleaser, and in the gaming industry they are much more important than in, say, the film industry, but there's got to be some restraint on them. Imagine if all Nintendo did was remake old games- we'd have nothing new to form a bond with. Nostalgia's one thing, but new IPs are like a brand new cake instead of the same one you had last birthday.
I think the "degree" of the remake is also important.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix? Cool as it is, it doesn't really deliver anything new beyond shinier graphics and remixed sounds.
In the case of A Boy and His Blob, cited in the article as well, it's an entirely different game based on the same premise. And those are cool by me.
Bionic Commando Rearmed is another great one, improving a number of aspects of the original and updating things to segue into the modern version of the franchise. It's loyal to the original, but has made its own mark, which it probably needed to.
But really, a balance of old and new is best. I usually look to something familiar for a sort of comfort, while I expect something new and unheard of to be a bit more eyebrow-raising, keeping me on the edge of my seat.
Uh, I love remakes. Did you even play The Secret of Monkey Island remake? It was like, 10x better than the original. Remakes give developers a chance to fix the mistakes they made on the original and improve the graphics.
Remakes 4eva.
There are a lot of reasons why. For example, the developers could be lazy or they just wish to cater for the fans of their original games.
1st being profit. ur catering towards something that has fans and will most likely buy the remake to see it improved.
2nd is being able to fully realize ur product. do things in this current gen that was not possible 2-3 gens ago.
there are other reasons but those are the main ones