Crazy fanatic genres

[CodeMonkey666]

Well, okay, not much to this post, but I was just reading in EGM about how now 8-bit chip music is becoming big, complete with fan sites, home-coded programs for composing music, and people hacking up Gameboys and NES cartridges and systems to turn them into music machines.

 

Then there's the fan-made games, with some people re-making current games as 2D versions. One group making a Metroid Prime remake is led by a 15 year-old. Also being done is a Zelda remake (though Nintendo is threatening the guy I believe). And then there's a 2D Halo game which some people thought was from Bungie.

 

And then of course there's the videogame emulation scene, which got really big in 1998, then almost disappreared, but then came back.

 

Makes you wonder what other videogame subgenres are going to come about in the near and long-term future.

 

But I think it's all damn cool

[Inky]

People who purchased and installed Half-Life 2 were treated to a decent 2-D platformer based on HL 1 -- Operation Gordon