Nightdive Studios, SNEG, Ziggurat, Piko Interactive and others rereleasing classic games

[Comte]

Who owns all the ssi rights? I see alot of abandonware sites pulling ssi stuff.

 

[Infinitron]

Who owns all the ssi rights? I see alot of abandonware sites pulling ssi stuff.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/classic-ssi-rpg-rereleases-by-forthright-entertainment.138976/

 

[Comte]

I am looking for Buck Rogers and Age of Rifles which vanished from the usual places.

 

[LESS T_T]

Piko rereleases 1994 SNES beat 'em up based on some cartoon series.

Meanwhile at Ziggurat, another strange choice of a game to make a sequel to, World Championship Boxing Manager 2.

 

[LESS T_T]

O.D.T.: Escape... Or Die Trying rerelease by Piko.

 

[lightbane]

Wow, that's an ancient game indeed... But, isn't it already in Gog though?

 

[Bad Sector]

Yes, it is also on sale.

 

[LESS T_T]

Piko releases Glover the N64 platformer:

Apparently they "redone" the game from the original source code of N64 version. I think this is the first time they did more than mere emulator rerelease.

 

[Neuromancer]

Are you sure they use N64 version as base?

There was a PC version of that game (with 3DFX support):
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/glover

It is more likely they adapted that together with a 3DFX wrapper to raise the resolution, graphic effects etc.

 

[LESS T_T]

Are you sure they use N64 version as base?

There was a PC version of that game (with 3DFX support):
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/glover

It is more likely they adapted that together with a 3DFX wrapper to raise the resolution, graphic effects etc.

Well that's what they say.

This version of Glover is a completely redone from the original source code (N64 version of the game), and improved for modern PCs.

 

[Infinitron]

Many Nightdive Studios titles are ready to play on Steam Deck!

Turok, Turok 2, System Shock: Enhanced Edition, System Shock 2, SiN: Gold, Shadow Man, Quake, Doom 64, Blood, PowerSlave: Exhumed and more will be added soon!

 

[Bad Sector]

Looks like whoever captured these doesn't know how to play with a controller, at 0:29 he basically missed all shots in SiN: Gold despite the enemy not moving at all :-P.

AFAIK Steam Deck even has a gyro for more precise aiming and i don't think it needs to be explicitly supported by a game to work.

 

[El Presidente]

Piko should change their name to JEID.
Just Emulate It, Dude.

 

[Modron]

Piko should change their name to JEID.
Just Emulate It, Dude.

Nintendo already has that copyrighted.

 

[Morgoth]

https://af.gog.com/de/game/the_wheel_of_time?as=1649904300

 

[agris]

https://af.gog.com/de/game/the_wheel_of_time?as=1649904300

*fiddles with braid while examining the rope-worked edge of a metal tray*

 

[Viata]

Do people even buy those? If so, no wonder gamers are the most retarded consumers out there.

 

[Viata]

Also, Piko is cancer:

 

[LESS T_T]

Another old UK game rerelease from Pixel Games UK. Alchemist, 1983 ZX Spectrum game:

 

[Morgoth]

There is no reason to be upset, as Piko merely adheres to capitalist rules.

 

[Curratum]

How do these guys even exist and keep working? Nobody buys those games, you'd get a couple hundred buyers at best, as the games are all hideously unattractive to anyone who didn't simply play them back then but also developed fond memories of them.

 

[LESS T_T]

How do these guys even exist and keep working? Nobody buys those games, you'd get a couple hundred buyers at best, as the games are all hideously unattractive to anyone who didn't simply play them back then but also developed fond memories of them.

As for Pixel Games, it is ran by one person whose day job is web developer at some e-commerce company. I imagine Piko is not so different.

Only Nightdive and probably Ziggurat are serious business employing multiple developers doing any meaningful work with these rereleases.

 

[LESS T_T]

Erbe Software, the company rereleased some random old adventure games made in Spain, now rereleases some 8-bit PC games made in Spain.

 

[LESS T_T]

Another ancient game from Pixel Games UK.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

From what I recall, Erbe Software were the biggest publisher of 8-bit games in Spain during the 1980s, to the point they'd often rebrand games published in other countries for the Spanish market.

Topo Soft was a very prolific developer for bizarre Spanish games during the 1980s, some of which haven't been translated into English. Their biggest hits include a football game that sold 100.000 copies in Spain alone (in 1987 no less!) and an isometric variant of Pac-Man that ended up being used by Pepsi for a competition in Japan.

My personal favorite Topo Soft game is a backwards take on Alien in a side-scrolling platformer where you control the monster as it infiltrates a space station and looks to ensure its future by impregnating ten crew members.