Freeware Archon Remake, 20 Years On

c64cryptoboy writes "It's been 20 years since Archon first came out for the Atari, shortly followed by ports for the C64, Amiga, NES, and DOS. Now it looks as if a new freeware version is in the works, one that promises to be true to the Atari/C64 versions' gameplay. The developers are apparently working with one of the original Archon creators, Jon Freeman. Here's a development screenshot." Nothing to download yet, but polls and development diaries galore for this interesting remake.

Comments

X-Archon

[sICE]

No update since last year, but still worth a look... http://xarchon.seul.org/ have fun!

Re:One of the best games ever...

[DLWormwood]

I'm an arcade junkie and ... to an arcade junkie, Archon just looks like fancy chess.

Then you missed out on a game you may have liked... When two pieces meet on the game board, the players engage in an arcade/action sequence to see who wins the square. Archon was not like the later Battle Chess where the animations were pre-scripted. Each of the pieces had a distinct fighting style, involving differing missile, melee, or area-affect attacks.

I'm surprised that there was never a later version of this game that used a Soul Calibur-style combat resolution system...

Re:One of the best games ever...

[edbarrett]

I'm surprised that there was never a later version of this game that used a Soul Calibur-style combat resolution system...

You may or may not like The Unholy War for PS1 ("From the creators of Star Control I & II and the co-designer of Archon", the packaging says). It works a lot like Archon on a hex grid, and the fights are in 3D.

Archon intro music

[c64cryptoboy]

If you had a C64, the intro music sounded something like this:

Archon (midi)

Archon II (mp3)

Re:Wheel of Grammar

[david duncan scott]

Try an adjective instead: "implicit"

Nothing to download yet, but polls and development diaries galore for this interesting remake.

which is to say

[There is] Nothing to download yet, but [there are] polls and development diaries galore for this interesting remake.

Sure it's sloppy and conversational, but that's the tone arond here. It's not terribly different from imperative statements, like "Go there", which at first glance lack a subject, but which implicitly have the subject "you".

I'm surprised that only the second clause bothered you. I would have thought that if the first made sense to you, the second would have as well.