Which brings me onto one of the launch titles for the original PlayStation, WipEout. But the capabilities of Javascript and HTML5 are such that we’re even seeing games that are allowing tributes to titles from the early days of the PlayStation… WipEout Reborn? You’d think that games of this nature would be limited to old-school titles, and certainly nothing more modern than systems seen in the early 90s. Classics from the 8-bit and 16-bit era are being reimagined either officially or unofficially to avoid legal complications. Then there are games that look somewhat familiar. In most cases it’s meant your average Android or iOS inspired titles available freely – puzzle titles, endless runner variants or simplistic yet fun platformers. What this has done is allowed websites to deliver online games that were only previously possible when running on actual hardware. So much so that software that would have needed to be run as standalone apps can now be run directly in a browser thanks to the power of Javascript and HTML5. Web technology has been advancing at an astonishing rate over the last few years. While modern console gamers are used to seeing remastered editions of their favourites from previous generations, there’s a new trend from an unexpected source… Usually it’s classics from the arcades of the 80s and early 90s, or some of the more well-known games from the 8-bit and 16-bit era.
One thing that’s always fascinated me as a lover of retro games is the number of times games get remade or how many titles pay homage to the games I grew up with.
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