Teh Awesome Retro Homebrew Games Thread

[Hadrian]

So I was thinking about homebrew retro goodness and I thought that these games deserve a wider audience. Now they're not exactly brand new and some of you may have played these before, but I'd like to share them regardless for those who don't really take much interest in homebrew stuff and want something to play.

Nori Kuro Cat

An ace little platformer where you play a cat
Download

Veck S.E.

Looks like Geometry Wars but plays like Smash TV/Beserk/Robotron
Download

Alien Abduction

Do you like Defender? Well you'll love this.
Download

La Mulana

Brilliant ode to the MSX & NES classics Maze of Galious, Castlevania & Metroid. Possibly one of the best retro homebrew games I've played.
Downloads

Thats all from me, feel free to add some that you think are awesome too.

 

[Jax]

Cave Story

It's a Castlevania/Metroid type game with a beautiful story!

 

[Hadrian]

Totally agree with you, lovely game! DS port is promising too.

 

[nileyg]

Every Extend

Tis Old... but i liek it...

 

[Linkiboy]

Cats

http://www.mediafire.com/?6t9mc2wptsy

You are a cat. Your cat friends have been kidnapped. Save them.

 

[nileyg]

Please Do

I am interested in it

Edit: Veck = Fuxing Win!!!

 

[Rayder]

Hello and welcome to TURRICAN. Be my guest. Another day another try, but remember, shoot or die! HAHAHAHA!

Hurrican - An awesome remake of the classic Turrican with much better graphics than the originals. This one is open-ended where there is a possibility of user-created levels to be added to it.

http://turrican.gamevoice.de/hurrican_site/

T2002 - Another excellent remake of the classic Turrican. This one retains the more classic look while still being an all-new adventure.

http://www.pekaro.de/content/t2002/t2002.html


I love these games! Run-and-gun fun! I remember playing the original on the old Commodore 64. In my opinion, they make Megaman look like crap. If ever there was an old-school game that needs to be on the DS, this is it.

You can also find the production versions of Turrican for Sega Genesis, NES and SNES to play on the go or on your PC emus.

Though I don't know how well they play on any GBA/DS emus, except the NES version which runs great on the built-in Supercard slot2 NES emu.....as long as you didn't update your SC to 1.81/1.82, that is.

 

[Hadrian]

There is one game which is impossible to find on the net, which I really enjoyed, called Cats. You play as a Cat and you try to rescue all of your Cat friends that have been kidnapped, only then the door the next level will open. It's a simple formula but it is a fun game. This game was made in Game Maker, and thankfully I still have the "sources" and if you guys are interested I'll compile and upload it.

Is it a remake of Alley Cat the excellent C64/Spectrum game? Sounds familiar.

The Hurrican and T2002 are pretty good. As are the other homebrew Turrican games for the C64.

 

[Linkiboy]

Ok, I uploaded the game. Check my first post.

 

[Vater Unser]

Alex the Alligator 4

Nice 4bit Jump & Run from the makers of Icy Tower

 

[nileyg]

Fl0w

Snake on Crack
Download

 

[Hadrian]

Nice nice, I especially love Alex The Alligator 4, not played it in ages though didn't it have a level editor?

 

[Legend]

Fl0w

Snake on Crack
Download

That game actually kind of scares me & makes me contemplate reality everytime I play it. Oh jesus, might as well start playing it again.

 

[Rayder]

Another Turrican game with nice music as you play.

T4 Funeral:

http://g1.acid-play.com/download/c6bd7c12/T4_Funeral.exe

 

[Hadrian]

Another Turrican game with nice music as you play.

T4 Funeral:

http://g1.acid-play.com/download/c6bd7c12/T4_Funeral.exe

Cheers didn't know about that one.

Some very nice Turrican games at the below link, including one running on a Quake 2 engine:
http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/in_development.php

 

[VmprHntrD]

Hummm how about the Ur-Quan Masters, a freeware recreation of the old Star Control 2 game. It's a potentially massive download depending what you want out of it as you can get into the 100s of MBs if you want the very nice audio and full speech packages.

Also, while these are GBA bound, they are retro-remakes from a place run by some frenchies called FoxySoft and basically they've converted like 8 Atari ST classics to GBA code with surprising accuracy. My fav of the bunch is well known, Another World/Out of this World which you can nab here: http://www.foxysofts.com/index.php?l=content/gba/anworld.inc ...and if you look left there's links to stuff like Airball, Nebulus, and many others.

And while it was done in flash it was researched and copied with true accuracy to the nes/arcade. Duck Hunt: http://wii.joshbuhler.com/duckhunt/ Works awesome on both the Nintendo Wii and Computers (saves high score to your computer too.)