# What game(s) would you want modernized? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 6, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431 "2011-09-06T21:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/101 "2011-09-10T08:29:59Z")
I’d like to see most games pre-2000 ported to the iPhone as apps. Particularly all the SIM games. Particularly SimEarth. ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/102 "2011-09-10T18:21:59Z")
I would love to see Mutant League Football resurrected. Just an update to the graphics, though - leave the gameplay alone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/103 "2011-09-10T20:50:52Z")
> [@emulsified](#): > > I would have said Auto Duel too. Funny how that game sticks in my memory all the way back from C64 days. > > I’ve often wondered if it would be possible to do a modern version of Nethack without ruining it… Probably not. Depends on what you mean by a modernized version of Nethack. There’s a reasonable argument to be made that Diablo/Diablo II and so on (including Torchlight) are such a thing. And there are modern versions of Nethack such as SLASH’EM or Falcon’s Eye, as well. For me, I want an updated version of my favorite RPG of all time: Darklands. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/104 "2011-09-10T20:56:36Z")
Oh, and **Lynn Bodoni** , if you are dealing with an older version of Fallout, you might want to give the version from GOG a try. I’ll give it a shot now - I have not installed it yet on this win7 machine. ---
**Author:** ![Chipacabra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/105 "2011-09-10T21:08:47Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Depends on what you mean by a modernized version of Nethack. There’s a reasonable argument to be made that Diablo/Diablo II and so on (including Torchlight) are such a thing. And there are modern versions of Nethack such as SLASH’EM or Falcon’s Eye, as well. > > For me, I want an updated version of my favorite RPG of all time: Darklands. For a different take of modernizing a roguelike, try [Dungeon Crawl](http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/). The tiles version, in particular, shows how you can keep the core gameplay elements, but also have an interface that’s lightyears beyond the Nethack days. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/106 "2011-09-10T21:32:01Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Oh, and **Lynn Bodoni** , if you are dealing with an older version of Fallout, you might want to give the version from GOG a try. I’ll give it a shot now - I have not installed it yet on this win7 machine. Downloaded, installed and played. I had one crash, but I blame that on the fact that I was also downloading Jagged Alliance 2 in the background, and the [GOG.com](http://GOG.com) installer interrupted FO while I was creating a character, causing me to tab back and forth between Explorer and FO. I have games released in the last year that have problems with that, so I don’t consider it a big problem. I’m running 64-bit Windows 7 with 6GB of RAM and a GeForce 275 video card. I played through the intro and got to Shady Sands. Combat works, as does dialog. I’m not sure if you want to drop $5.99 on a game you already own, but the [GOG.com](http://GOG.com) version does seem to be stable. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/107 "2011-09-11T02:21:03Z")
An Alpha Centauri update would be nice, but I wouldn’t want (present-day) Firaxis to even tweak the gameplay. The Colonization remake had a bunch of changes I didn’t care for. EVO would be fun, but it would _need_ tweaking. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/108 "2011-09-11T04:04:03Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Depends on what you mean by a modernized version of Nethack. There’s a reasonable argument to be made that Diablo/Diablo II and so on (including Torchlight) are such a thing. And there are modern versions of Nethack such as SLASH’EM or Falcon’s Eye, as well. > > For me, I want an updated version of my favorite RPG of all time: Darklands. Oh man, Darklands. I STILL emulate Windows 98 just so I can play that. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/109 "2011-09-11T15:49:35Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Oh, and **Lynn Bodoni** , if you are dealing with an older version of Fallout, you might want to give the version from GOG a try. I’ll give it a shot now - I have not installed it yet on this win7 machine. It’s also available via [GameTap](http://www.gametap.com/), which I’ve shilled here several times. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/110 "2011-09-11T19:58:10Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I’d like to see most games pre-2000 ported to the iPhone as apps. > > Particularly all the SIM games. Particularly SimEarth. Not to mention, all Commodore 64 games. Especially the noncommercial ones like \*Torture the Smurfs. \* ---
**Author:** ![jayarrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@jayarrell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayarrell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/111 "2011-09-11T20:30:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 18 years later or whatever it’s been, TIE Fighter might STILL be the best game I have ever played. With its expansions, it’s hours upon hours of absolutely riveting gaming. > > An updated TIE Fighter - keeping the old awesomeness and gameplay, but just bringing it up to today’s standards? If it was as good as the original I’d pay a hundred dollars for it. > > Hell, I’d be happy to get a full version that would work on my computer now. There was a re-release of the win95 collector edition of tie fighter. I picked it up a year ago. I had to install a patch and run the game after killing explorer in task manager but it runs just fine on win 7 64 bit. I just wish it would be updated to modern graphics. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431/112 "2011-09-12T13:23:16Z")
2nd Darklands, though I haven’t played it in forever. I would love to see an updated SimEarth. That would be awesome. I would pay money for that, even. There was a game called Fantasy Empires, and I was going to say that I would love to see an update to it, but I realized that the Total War games are essentially the same thing, only without the RPG angle, or the magic stuff. So there’s that. But yeah, mostly SimEarth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-game-s-would-you-want-modernized/595431.md?page=5)