# Awesome remakes of old games
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [July 24, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797 "2010-07-24T02:00:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/1 "2010-07-24T02:00:41Z")
In the 90’s [Scorched Earth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_%28computer_game%29) came out and it was great. Then in the 2000’s from a British Website comes [Scorched 3D](http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/). It’s addicting (to me anyway).
So what other updates of classic games are out there that awesome to play?
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/2 "2010-07-24T02:39:51Z")
One of my students had a Scorched Earth clone on his iPhone.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/3 "2010-07-24T02:47:01Z")
I highly, highly, highly, recommend these free remakes of King’s Quest 1, 2, and Quest for Glory 2.
[Get them here](http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html)
Also, the free Maniac Mansion remake/update is great too.
[Get it Here](http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=401)
Monkey Island 1 and 2 have been updated as well and are great.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/4 "2010-07-24T14:26:50Z")
There is currently a Masters of Magic remake in beta testing that i cannot wait for.
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### Author:  [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/5 "2010-07-24T14:57:43Z")
> [@DigitalC](#):
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> There is currently a Masters of Magic remake in beta testing that i cannot wait for.
Are you referring to[Stardock’s Elemental: War of Magic?](http://www.elementalgame.com/)
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/6 "2010-07-24T15:15:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I highly, highly, highly, recommend these free remakes of King’s Quest 1, 2, and Quest for Glory 2.
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> [Get them here](http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html)
This was going to be my post. KQ1 and QfG2 are pretty much recreations of the original games with better graphics and a mouse-based interface. KQ1 is pretty simple by modern standards and I’d recommend mostly for nostalgia value or “historic” interest, but I think QfG2 holds up very well.
The AGD version of KQ2 is significantly different from the original and is longer, has a more complex plot, new puzzles, and different solutions to some of the old puzzles.
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### Author:  [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/7 "2010-07-24T15:17:32Z")
Fallout is essentially an update of Wasteland. Though the party mechanics were new and not so hot.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/8 "2010-07-24T17:17:30Z")
> [@Lamia](#):
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> > [@Mahaloth](#):
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> > I highly, highly, highly, recommend these free remakes of King’s Quest 1, 2, and Quest for Glory 2.
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> > [Get them here](http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html)
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> This was going to be my post. KQ1 and QfG2 are pretty much recreations of the original games with better graphics and a mouse-based interface. KQ1 is pretty simple by modern standards and I’d recommend mostly for nostalgia value or “historic” interest, but I think QfG2 holds up very well.
I actually thought they expanded KQ1 as well. Am I wrong? I mean, I thought they added puzzles and story to it.
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/9 "2010-07-24T19:10:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I actually thought they expanded KQ1 as well. Am I wrong? I mean, I thought they added puzzles and story to it.
No, there are a few Easter Eggs but in terms of story and puzzles it is the same as the original game. Well, the official Sierra 1990 remake of the game, at least. I think there may have been some minor changes between the 1984 version and the 1990 EGA version, but I only played the latter.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/10 "2010-07-24T19:33:04Z")
> [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](#):
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> > [@DigitalC](#):
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> > There is currently a Masters of Magic remake in beta testing that i cannot wait for.
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> Are you referring to[Stardock’s Elemental: War of Magic?](http://www.elementalgame.com/)
Indeed.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2010, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-remakes-of-old-games/547797/11 "2010-07-25T08:48:05Z")
[Oolite](http://www.oolite.org/) is a remade version of [Elite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)), if you liked the space trading genre.