Nightdive Studios, SNEG, Ziggurat, Piko Interactive and others rereleasing classic games

[Morgoth]

So why the fuck didn't they show Shock 2 Enhanced Edition at PAX West? What a wasted opportunity.

 

[LESS T_T]

So why the fuck didn't they show Shock 2 Enhanced Edition at PAX West? What a wasted opportunity.

Because Nightdive didn't go PAX West?

 

[Makabb]

Why the hell are they re-releasing these old games

 

[Comte]

Another one from Mirrorsoft, Annals of Rome (1988):

Ancient wargames I am sure this is delightful.

 

[LESS T_T]

Two more Mirrorsoft re-releases, bring more ancient wars.

Sorcerer Lord (1988):

(Why CGA mode?)


Austerlitz (1989):

In other news, Piko's progress on Glover thing:



Getting a lot of attention for some reason.

 

[garren]

I really liked glover, played the demo to death back in the day.

 

[LESS T_T]

Endlessly teasing Powerslave EX. This is a Japanese guidebook of Powerslave:

 

[Baron Dupek]

About time since they C&D fan project few years back.

 

[Makabb]

I never even heard about most of these games......is anyone actualy buying them.

 

[LESS T_T]

Austerlitz (1989):

Apparently this is the third entry of a trilogy. This is the first one:

 

[LESS T_T]

Another Mirrorsoft release, Battle Master:

The world was enmeshed in a terrible conflict. Humans mistrusted Dwarves, Dwarves hated Elves, Elves despised Orcs, and Orcs hated everyone. The rivers ran with the blood of battle and the land stank only of death. Civilization was spiraling towards decay.

AND THEN THE WATCHER CAME.

He prophesied that a leader would emerge from the south. A leader brave enough to stand face to face with dragons and survive, shrewd enough to solve the most complex enigmas and experienced enough to know when to parley and when to fight. He would be someone familiar with magic, capable of intelligent strategy who would buy, loot and barter with one single aim, to gather a powerful force of men, win back the four king's crowns and restore the world to everlasting peace.

The Watcher has issued his challenge. Dare you take it up?:

• Top quality arcade action.

• A huge, detailed fantasy world to explore – complete with castles, villages and underground mines.

• 16 different leaders from 4 different races to choose from devious puzzles, fiendish traps, countless magic objects.

• Fight, negotiate or trade for extra troops.

• Adopt your own battle formations.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

I can see DOS re-releases, but for the rest...These people are aware emulators exist, right? Did I wake up in some alternate universe where the BLEEM! court ruling went the other way and byuu is in prison for fucking a Super Famicom?

 

[LESS T_T]

Cool looking shmup games originally released on GBA, re-released by the original publisher Majesco. Somehow Piko is involved in this re-release:

 

[Infinitron]

As spotted by MotherMachinae, it seems an entity called Ziggurat has grabbed some of the Retroism games including Darklands.

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Ziggurat

Those games are now removed from GOG.

 

[LESS T_T]

To be honest what's the (commercial) worth of Darklands? Stop selling on GOG probably cuts half of its current worth. Maybe it's the rights to make a game named Darklands, but whatever this Ziggurat/Cosmi Corporation/ValuSoft entity still does not register the trademark. In fact it's still registered by Billion Soft (Retroism) as far as the trademark system cares. (The same for Slave Zero.)

 

[LESS T_T]

Tunnel B1 (1996):

And its "sister title" Viper. Re-released by Throwback Entertainment, and Piko is involved:

Also for some reason:

 

[LESS T_T]

Another re-release from Mirrorsoft, it's Savage (1988):

Also finally some other company bothered to bring Data East catalog:

 

[lightbane]

They're really, really scrapping the bottom of the barrel now.

 

[LESS T_T]

Another Probe Software game re-release from Mirrorsoft, Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper (1987):

Retrogamer article about this game: https://www.retrogamer.net/retro_games80/the-making-of-trantor-the-last-stormtrooper/

As for the DOS one, my eyes are bleeding with that terrible four-colour mode!

Too bad this re-release has to be the DOS version.

Anyway I guess the Mouse will have something to say about this 33 year old game.

 

[LESS T_T]

Another PSS strategy game from Mirrosoft, Power Struggle (1988):

 

[LESS T_T]

More late 80s strategy game from Mirrorsoft, Firezone (1987):

 

[Morgoth]

Firezone (1987)

"A game of 21st century warfare."

Let me guess, it has laser guns and Mars colonies?

 

[LESS T_T]

Mirror, mirror, another Mirrorsoft re-release is Interphase (1989), an early first person 3D game, by The Assembly Line. Literally cyberspace game and you play Chad:

The dreams of the future are now reality; fully trained professionals whose purpose is to create optically stored REM moments - dreams to obliterate the cares of waking thought.

Yet the DreamTrack Corporation have created an insidious implant within the latest DreamTrack that is being mastered for release within the labyrinth of the Corporation's mainframe complex.

As a rogue dreamer, you have to enter the mainframe and direct your partner to the track itself - the minds of every future generation will be trusting to your skill and intellect.

Taking the role of Chad, it's up to you to guide your partner, Kaf-E, safely through the complex security system to the top of the building. Once at the top she must collect the correct DreamTrack from the vaults before making her way back down through the building to the exit.

• Navigate the maze like interior of DreamTrack Corporation's Mainframe.
  
• Pilot your way through twisting Tunnels avoiding Data Lines.
  
• Avoid Security Drones trying to capture you.
  
• Locate and Destroy Obstacles blocking your path.

 

[Owl]

Holy crap, I remember playing Interphase on the Amiga - about a million years ago. I loved these early 3d polygonal games for some reason.
Why can't they release these games on gog?

 

[Nifft Batuff]

The fact that these old games are commercialized again, and consequently removed from public repositories where they were aleady available, is not a good thing in the long term.