Flash Amiga game remakes galore

This entry has now been merged with my Amiga game remakes article so will no longer be updated. All links have been removed... because no-one likes 404s.
 
Last Thursday afternoon I was sitting in the office watching the seconds crawl by while I waited to be told I could finish early for the Christmas break. There was nothing to do because pretty much everyone we come into contact with during the course of a more typical day had either already sloped off through the back door or were in no fit state to make any demands of us - apparently there's alc-eee-hole in mulled wine. Who'd have thought?

Bored, tipsy and with time on my hands I started thinking about classic Amiga games, and more specifically, how many of them had been converted to Flash movies and uploaded to the web (it's only a matter of copying and pasting the source code into Swish, right Flash coders?). Finding out ought to kill a bit of time, I thought, so I set about Googling for the answer.

Would you believe some desperados actually go to the trouble of creating Flash buttons with the names of popular games written on them that link to affiliate shopping sites? The web just keeps on giving. Nevertheless, as boredom and idle hands beat spammers every time in the web equivalent of paper, scissors and stone, I emerged - weary and battle-scarred - but victorious.

The list below details all the byte for byte conversions, as well as homage style remakes, I managed to excavate and dust down from the spam-littered detritus of the web. As this appears to be the only list of its kind out there I'm hoping to make it as panoptic as humanly possible. If you can help to fill in any missing gaps please post your suggestions below.

Original game	Flash remake / homage
Bombuzal	Detonator
Bubble Bobble	Bubble Bobble: The Revival Bubble Boys
Bubble Bobble 2	Bubble Bobble 2
Defender of the Crown	Defender of the Crown
Deflektor	Reflections
Dynablaster	Bomberman in the Land of the Pumpkin
Flashback	Flashback
Galaga	Hurricane
Gauntlet	Gauntlet
Ghosts 'n' Goblins	Megaman vs Ghosts 'n' Goblins
IK+	IK+
Ironman Offroad Racer	Oversteer
King's Quest	Peasant's Quest
Klax	Klax 3D
Lemmings	Christmas Consumerism Roadies DHTML Lemmings - not Flash, but you can still play it in your browser so who cares?
Lost Vikings	Lost Vikings (demo)
Marble Madness	Gyroball
Micro Machines	Nano Machinez Micro Machines TT
Nebulus	Nebulus
Pang	Pang 2001 Bubble Trouble Pang MX Pang Flash
Prince of Persia	Prince of Persia
Raiden	RaidenX
Rampage	Ravage Hulk Smash Up Mutant
Rick Dangerous	Rick Dangerous
Robocop	Counter Terror
R-Type	R-Type (demo)
Sim City	Sim City Classic
Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe	Crunchball 3000 X Hoc Toonami Arena
Stardust	Haemorrhoids
Street Fighter	Street Fighter Street Fighter Online
Tanks	Tanks Scorched
Wings of Fury	Wings of Fury
Workbench	Amiga Demulator

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Moles in their midst

The PR entourage of the western world's political heavy-weights were sure they had their taskmasters' backs covered from all possible angles. They were wrong. While the spin-doctors were monitoring the brutally omnipotent paparazzi and pundits, a spy operating much closer to home had been surreptitiously recording and podcasting to the masses the nefarious schemes and mortifying goofs of the likes of Tony Blair, George Bush and their closest confreres.

'Whack My Bush' will take you on a white-knuckle journey replete with intrigue and revelations as heard through the ears of a particularly curious, wall-dwelling fly, of sorts. Reality TV... erm radio even, has never been so unsettling, depressing and yet ultimately gripping.

Thanks to this noble exercise in exposing the wickedness of our esteemed 'leaders' we learn that behind closed doors mild-mannered Tony swears like a trooper, has the words "hello sailor" tattooed above his wang and employs Jade Goody as his personal lifestyle coach. Equally sensational disclosures include the discovery that George is mentored by his more intelligent pet dog, Barney, and dreams of doing unmentionable things to gibbons after lubricating them with Vaseline.
Straight-laced Condi Rice, we learn, isn't quite the girl-scout she presents to the media; after spending a trying day on the phone apologising to foreign dignitaries on George's behalf she likes to unwind by smoking class A drugs.

The Governator and deputy prime-minister, John Prescott, do not emerge unscathed either. Arnie is shown to be a sexist Nazi pre-occupied with heavy artillery and stomping down doors for no apparently reason, while Fatty eats everything in sight and is a tad uncouth, just a tad mind. OK, so some 'leaks' are more controversial and shocking than others.

Mysteriously the podcast has yet to be censored by its unwitting stars. Some say this is because its producer can't be tracked down and 'disappeared', though other theories have also been hinted at. When pushed for an opinion, Bush giggled like a schoolgirl at the thought of a fictional president character coincidentally owning a dog called Barney, just like himself.

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