Thursday, July 15, 2010

2D Flash version of Portal

Back when Portal came out, this great 2D Flash version of Portal was released free-to-play online. It's a lot of fun, and has over 40 great levels of Portal puzzles.




http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/portal.php

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Dark Void Zero

Capcom created a Metroid-style "prequel" to their next-gen game Dark Void, called Dark Void Zero. It is a 2D jetpack shooter, complete with period box art. I haven't tried it yet, but the DSi version has a higher Game Ranking than the next-gen game. It's available on DSi, iPhone and PC.


It's available for PC on Steam ($4.99!) http://store.steampowered.com/app/45730/

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

The new movie Scott Pilgrim Vs the World (based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's comics of the same name) is full of old-school gaming goodness. But in addition to that, UbiSoft is releasing a 4-person co-op beat-em-up in the style of Capcom's arcade classics or River City Ransom. It's being released for PSN in August and shortly after for XBLA.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAY4vNJd7A8

Monday, July 12, 2010

Expendables movie 8-bit experience!



The new action movie Expendables has created an awesome new Contra-style 8-bit game. The only drawback is that it's only available on Facebook, and you have to "like" it and allow to to access for your info to play it.


http://www.facebook.com/expendablesmovie?v=app_136379469711900

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Portal on the Atari 2600

These creative cats created a Portal clone called Super 3D Portals 6 that is a Atari 2600 demake of Portal, and playable on emulators!




http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=2391.0

Welcome to Post Retro Arcade!

My goal with this blog is to track and find awesome things that people do with modern games or pop culture and present it as a retro style game (playable or not). In the future, I'll try to be more verbose, but I want to kick this off by catching up on some of the awesome things that I have found over the past few years.

First up, this was the April Fool's joke from Capcom, a video of the hit game Bayonetta, reimagined as a 16-bit sidescroller: