I wonder if immersion in fiction (interactive or otherwise) is lower nowadays, given the rise of dopamine-saturating short-form content like scrolling. I definitely enjoyed more long-form content (like the mentioned games) 10-20 years ago. I guess I do experience less genuine immersion. I wonder what the effect of that is on my wellbeing.

I recently setup an emulator, passed it through the TV and had blue tooth controllers hooked up, so I could show my son Donkey Kong Country - we ended up finishing 1 and 2 (with my wife joining in), he loved the older game. Trying to get him into older PC games now. So yeah, it is possible to get them into it (just dragging him away from minecraft is hard haha).

my son is addicted to VR gorilla tag. I guess he'll be getting weep-eyed about it in 30 years :P

I think a lot of the value of a total rewrite in C is that it is a buildable executable that should be runable on virtually any system, given that this game predates the popularity of the modern "3D Card". A lot of the friction in these games is dealing with all the peculiarities of getting a DOS game to somehow install on a 30 year newer Mac. A complete rewrite eliminates all of that awkward installer friction, so long as you have the necessary game files.

At that age, all I knew about most movies was from Mad parodies, which resulted in some highly confusing revelations later in life.

Wow, I thought this could not be possible. May I ask, where did you grow up? I mean, in the 80s the Star Wars were already a cult thing.

I checked this out, do you have the music available for purchase or download? Loved the song in this trailer, looks cool as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdQ_QV2t5vQ

I wouldn't call xwvm a mod. It's a reimplementation of the X-Wing alliance engine .

> XWVM is a facilitator app to play Star Wars X-Wing from Lucas Arts and Totally Games. > We are re-implementing the executable to extend the game beyond its original hardware support.

"high-resolution rendering and substantially more advanced lighting" and several other items are documented as improvements in the link.

A quick glance through the README would demonstrate the litany of improvements you can expect from a proper decomp/port, compared to emulation.

Yes, a lot of these are much improved by reverse-engineering them and adding a few tweaks to modernize them. Many of them have added support for different display aspects, since most retro games are tied to 4:3. I downloaded the new RE of Sega Rally the other day and it was nice to have full proper widescreen.

I personally like to play with the graphs of the Totally Games version of Tie Fighter but with the iMuse music of the original. it's the best experience.

You still need users to jump through all the hoops of installing the game data files, or you’d be on very shaky ground concerning copyright.

+1 -- that would be an excellent idea. A lot of these would work great ported to web and the download is small enough that you'd barely notice it. Tie Fighter probably ran off floppy originally?

Thrustmaster FCS & WCS MK1 for me. And as much as I'd love to play it again, it will never be the same.