Game Franchises From The Ashes

Thanks to Nintendojo for posting the latest in their series on classic games that deserve to get resurrected in updated form. The latest instalment picks out Combat for the Atari 2600, "...one of the first genuine 'deathmatch' games around", but earlier picks include Fortress of Narzod for the Vectrex, and Shadowrun for the SNES, of which the author says "...the style of this game, plus its rudimentary squad-based combat, makes this a natural for an upgrade."

Comments

Seven Cities of Gold, Wasteland?

[Quinn]

Seven Cities of Gold was indeed an awesome game. Just recently I was yearning for something like that to pass the time. I recall blowing many hours sailing to the New World, slaughtering ungrateful savages, and searching for the titular septefecta of treasure troves.

I also role-played a successful expedition earning me a masturbation ritual with a saucy European lass as portrayed by a cheap second-hand OUI magazine centerfold. Yeah, those were some mighty funked up days.

Anyway, my own adolescent perversions aside, I did spy this single PC title on the list, so I know they included the PC, so where the hell is Wasteland? Maybe Fallout was considered an unofficial upgrade, but I still have high hopes of "Faran Brygo's" inXile snagging the rights and doing a proper remake of the greatest RPG of all time.

Pirates! 2004

[BigDork1001]

Not supposedly, it is happening. Game Spot had an announcement about it a while back.

And over at Firaxis they have an announcment about it too.