This was not found on some 30+ year old floppy that some Lucasfilm Games developer found in his attic or anything.
It is from a fan-remake from 2012 that was abandoned.
There are many modern games being developed for these 40-something year old computing platforms, which - incidentally - still work great as a gaming/hacking/fun platform, and therefore are attracting all kinds of interesting hacks and devs.
My favourite recent endeavour, is DBugs' EncounterHD - a reboot of an early text adventure game, but given the modern UI and tooling treatment (by a world-class AAA-title developer, it has to be said) ..
https://defenceforce.itch.io/encounter
This is essentially, a text adventure game for a somewhat obscure 80's-era UK-based 8-bit computer, the Oric-1/Atmos, but now in the 21st Century, DBug has done an outstanding job of adding graphics and realtime dynamics/sound to it, some ~30 years after the fact...
It has become a delightful thing to play - on a Steam Deck, for instance, it is quite comfortable!
The game ships within its own build of an Oric-1/Atmos emulator, which you can escape to and use as if it were an Oric Atmos - if you want an Oric-1/Atmos emulator to further play with - and there are other delightful treats in EncounterHD among the lives of the characters in the game... watch out for the Game & Watch, for instance, which features a familiar grumpy monkey in fully playable form ..
And then I have my own. I might even still have a cartridge for Halo for the Nintendo DS. It was really pretty nice, but Bungie was like: No way!
I've been playing Zork, Planetfall, Deadline, etc off and on since I was in elementary school. The only Infocom game I've ever successfully solved is Enchanter. My favorite games by far!
These issues of The New Zork Times are fun...
https://infodoc.plover.net/nzt/NZT4.1.pdf
https://infodoc.plover.net/nzt/NZT4.2.pdf
https://infodoc.plover.net/nzt/NZT4.3.pdf
Edit: Added links to NZT
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/-StVwe2D39k
There’s a lot of comments claiming it was a modded Goldeneye DS game, curious if you could confirm.
This sounds reasonable, the original game was the product of about 40 people working for about a year. Plus the four or five years some of those people previously spent on building their adventure game interpreter. Demaking a game takes less time than making one - you've got the whole game there already and you just have to figure out how to simplify it to fit into your target system - but it's still A Lot.
(original game credits: https://www.mobygames.com/game/534/indiana-jones-and-the-las...)
apples_oranges•5mo ago