but i still think you are wrong as far as recreation goes, my goal was to recreate something that was so close to the original, that you could not tell them apart, to honor the old ways.
i forget the film and actor concerned but one then big actor was shown the original film of a movie they were going to remake and he just turned around and said
"just re release this movie"
and some other remakes are so scene for scene it makes you wonder why they bothered
so although i like old games i do feel same gfx same levels same game play how many people would much rather crank up an emu than dl a remake that is too just the same
now... there are a bilion bad boulderdash clones on the net, evry one trying to 'add something new' ... most of them fail badly, and very few is lojal to the origial style and feeling.
same can be said for far too many other retro games im afraid
I have always wanted to do a BoulderDash game, i dont know why i have not done it before in the 15 years i have been writing code... but when i finnaly did, i wanted it to be just like the game i so loved, and if i remove the graphics i associate with BoulderDash... the sentimental feeling is removed by 90% aswell.
myself i wanted to remake icicle works (in STOS) when i was younger, but that never got beyond the really naff gfx and my plus 4 had gone the way of the dodo so i couldnt even just play it for fun either
but the way i see these two clones and other games like them being gfx and level accurate, its like writing out the lyrics to your fave song verbatum where other remakes that refresh the gfx but keep the same game we know and love are more akin to singing the same lyrics
its all someone elses everything nothing added that the emu hasnt got, basically its lacking YOU