Dead Tomb, a remake of a Videoway game

b/Gaming publicado por u/Yuki September 18, 2017, 11:01:26 PM

Dead Tomb, a remake of a Videoway game

If you lived in Canada or in the UK in the 90s with a cable TV subscription, you might have fond memories of the Videoway, a powerful cable TV box that could overlay many useful informations on screen, be it the TV guide, the weather, lottery numbers, a calculator and even interactive games. One of these games, Temporel Inc., was one of the most popular of the service. It was about a time traveler trying to find his way out of a pyramid in ancient Egypt to get back to his time machine and the playing mechanics were similar to Maniac Mansion.

Unfortunately, Vidéotron closed down the service in Québec in 2006 in favor of Illico, a more powerful cable TV service, with all the Videoway games vanishing with it. However, an user recorded a walkthrough of Temporel Inc. just before the service shut down, allowing him to make a complete remake of the game on PC.

Fast forward a few years later, Collectorvision, which you might know for making good Intellivision homebrew and having bought the rights to Acclaim's and LJN's brands and logos, has announced a remake of the game, but this time on the NES console with all new, beautiful graphics.

Jean-François Dupuis, the founder and project lead of Collectorvision Games, has said Dead Tomb should be done by December, with only a few typos and fixes left and music to add for a release sometime in early 2018.

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u/Dream of Omnimaga September 19, 2017, 12:49:37 AM

Nice to see another company doing NES homebrew games. Also I'm happy to see a 8-bits remake of that game, because while a PC remake was made a few years ago (under the french name Temporel we had back in the days), it looks way too different than the original. A NES version at low resolution should hopefully remain true to the original.

I hope they do more Videoway games. Also lol at them buying the rights of the Acclaim and LJN names. They're even developing some NES games under the LJN name.