Development studio System 3 has scored rights to the old Epyx library of games and is already planning to bring popular titles Impossible Mission and California Games to the DS and PSP. Impossible Mission is due to grace the handhelds in January, while California Games will release in May including unlockable content in the form of older titles Winter Games and Summer Games. While these games will be remakes of their original, dust-covered cousins, System 3's founder Mark Kale said they will not be updated to 3D.
"You gotta keep the gameplay mechanics the same or else it ceases to be the original game and you're only using the game brand to sell games," Kale said. "It ceases to be Impossible Mission or California Games or what have you. ...What we're doing is we're incorporating the original gameplay and mechanics and bringing the gameplay up to date."
Kale also noted that versions of these remakes are also planned to release on the Wii, which he was quick to say had the ideal control scheme for these games. We assume the games will be sold independently via Nintendo's Virtual Console service, however the piece makes no mention of distribution plans.
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8-18-2006 @ 10:08AM
Super Duper Mario said...
too old school for me...
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8-18-2006 @ 11:17AM
Covarr said...
Wasn't the Atari 2600 version of Impossible Mission literally impossible to complete, due to a minor bug with a major effect? I hope they don't make that mistake again.
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8-18-2006 @ 11:19AM
Kurifurisan said...
I can't wait. There was nothing like hearing the in-game villain from Impossible Mission at the start..."Stay Awhile...Stay Forever!" Awesome!!!!
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8-18-2006 @ 11:34AM
Plaid Ninja said...
What about Jumpman & Jumpman Jr?
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8-18-2006 @ 11:46AM
Dracula Jones said...
Nuclear Hasselhoff!!
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8-18-2006 @ 11:51AM
Andy said...
Impossible Mission... fantastic game with stellar character animation for the time, although the main sprite was pretty much the same one to grace most of EPYX's early output (summer games I & II and to some degree winter games also).
and the speech, as outlined by an earlier post, was eerily scene-setting, and fantatic to hear from such primative hardware, early in its shelf life too.
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8-19-2006 @ 7:07PM
Fortyseven said...
You can never be too old school, damn it.
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8-22-2006 @ 1:44PM
Mabui said...
Mission impossible was such a frustration on c64.. though the summer games was some of the most multiplayer fun I've ever had on a computer and I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of vitual console release of these games in their original form.. I would definately think about picking them up, especially if they were bargin priced.
Summer games
Winter games
California games
World Games
Summer Games II
All good memories in my misspent youth..
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