RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games

https://itizso.itch.io/retrofab

by todsacerdoti • 1 year ago

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jhbadger• 1 year ago

This is really well done. While I've seen other simulations of hand-held games, I really appreciate how they even include the instruction booklets with many of them. It really gives the feeling of actually having these games, some of which (several Game & Watch games) I owned as a child, and many others that I always wanted but didn't.

alklinewebb• 1 year ago

this is absolutely well, very well done!

chungus• 1 year ago

Wow, there goes 20 minutes. Really enjoyed it, thanks.

hassleblad23• 1 year ago

Very well done. Congrats.

ktallett• 1 year ago

Wow! This is really cool. I love this idea and the implementation, great job!

anonzzzies• 1 year ago

Very nicely done!

empressplay• 1 year ago

I was like, "Do they have Wildfire? Do they have Wildfire...? Yes they have Wildfire!" Thanks for sharing this!

distantsounds• 1 year ago

is that MAME in the backend?

31337Logic• 1 year ago

Thank you!!

remram3• 1 year ago

Tried Yahtzee, it doesn't look like you can remove the hold on a die after you've rolled?

Bjartr• 1 year ago

It's probably enough to leave a comment on the page if the author is active on itch

remram3• 1 year ago

Did that thanks! The game's page doesn't allow comments but the one with the list of games does.

edit: I also found a discussion forum: https://itch.io/board/2744567/feedback

kevinsync• 1 year ago

WOW -- thank you for transporting me back to the mind-bending hell that is that 1989 TMNT game! I remember convincing my mom to buy me that at Meijer, and riding in the back seat of the car at night, squinting, only able to see the LCD screen for a split second at a time, each time we passed another street light lol

mobiledev2014• 1 year ago

In case you haven’t seen this nostalgic strip

https://imgur.com/gallery/memories-yOgNF7w

ranger_danger4• 1 year ago

How is this legal? Surely they do not have permission from all those rightsholders to reproduce and distribute their IP like this.

echelon• 1 year ago

Especially Nintendo. They've got quite a few Nintendo ROMs.

anthk2• 1 year ago

Early LCD machines had no ROMs I think.

rgovostes2• 1 year ago

Firstly, who cares? It would be a sad day when Bandai goes after a non-commercial homage to 1980s LCD games they probably forgot about.

Since 2003, the Copyright Office has granted a DMCA exemption in particular for preservation of video games, e.g., https://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/librarian_statement_01.h...

Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.

Most recently, in the 2024 review of DMCA exemption requests, no video game companies objected:

The Software Preservation Network (‘‘SPN’’) and LCA jointly petitioned to renew the exemption for individual play by gamers and preservation of video games by a library, archives, or museum for which outside server support has been discontinued, and preservation by a library, archives, or museum, of discontinued video games that never required server support. No oppositions were filed against renewal, and one individual filed a comment in support.

Itch.io itself is able to host the project thanks to DMCA safe harbor provisions.

ranger_danger4• 1 year ago

But itch.io is not a library. That exception is explicitly for "a library, archives, or museum." Even if they were technically a library, courts have already ruled that mass unlimited lending is not what they meant by 'individual play'.

I think this is pretty clearly infringing, the only issue is that the rightsholders themselves have to be the ones that bring a suit against them.

ugh123• 1 year ago

Frogger is surprisingly playable :)

gamedever• 1 year ago

Here's this too!

https://www.emuvr.net/

I was hoping RetroFab was going to be electro-mechanical games.

RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games

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