introduction

WELCOME! On this website you can find a remakes page and a scramble page. The remakes page features my retro remakes of: Demon Attack, Scramble, Space Invaders and The Empire Strikes Back. The scramble page is a fan page on one of the greatest arcade classics ever. Check it out!

links

Konami
Here you can find information on the "Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced"

Mameworld
With MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) you can play the Arcade versions of Scramble. These are: Scramble (Konami), Scramble (Stern), Scramble (bootleg on Galaxian hardware), Explorer (bootleg) and Strafe Bomb (bootleg) and, of course, other arcade games.

Mess
With Mess (Multiple Emulation Super System) you can play the Vectrex version, the Commodore versions, the Gameboy Advance version, the Playstation version, and many, many more.

Klov
The "Killer List of Videogames" page has information and pictures of almost every arcade machine ever made.

Twingalaxies
Twin Galaxies is the world authority on player rankings, gaming statistics and championship tournaments. The world record on Scramble (Konami arcade version) is: 1147580 points!

Arcadiabay
Arcadiabay is where I have bought the Scramble arcade PCB (Video game board) that I own. They sell PCB's, Cabinets, video game parts, pinball parts, and more.

Classicgaming
In the "Game museum" part of this page there is an interesting "Game of the Week" review of Scramble.

Thelogbook
In the "phosphor dot fossils" part of this page there is another interesting review of Scramble.

Arcadecontrols
If you want to build your own arcade controls or a cabinet, this page is a very good start.

news - December 2008 - remakes

The Retro Remakes Competition 2008 has ended. You can download my entry from the remakes page.

news - September 2008 - remakes

The Retro Remakes Competition 2008 has started and I'm entering the competition with a game called Pauline's Way. It will be contending in the category "Sequels That Weren’t" Pauline was the lady in the original Donkey Kong. Pauline's Way will be a platformer in a Atari 2600 style.

news - March 2008 - remakes

Finished another Scramble remake this month. It started out as an update to my remake of 2006 because it doesn't run on more and more systems. This is due to the graphics beeing 320x240. So I rescaled all the graphics to 800x600 and put in some other exciting! new features. You can read all about those features and download the new remake from the remakes page.

news - December 2007 - scramble

I'm still working on my Scramble cabinet. Cleaned it thoroughly, installed new t-molding, a new monitor, a new power supply and electronics. The only thing that needs some work now is the control panel. Here are a few pictures of my scramble cabinet (inside). When everything is 100% cleaned, installed and working I will post more pictures. Maybe I'll shoot a video too.

news - August 2007 - scramble

Finally I have been able to buy a Scramble cabinet. It's in good condition and I'm very happy with it. The things that need to be done are: new monitor, new monitor bezel, new T-molding, minor woodrepairs and cleaning. Please take a look at my scramble cabinet pictures. Next month I will post more pictures. So stay tuned.

news - June 2007 - remakes

Issue 33 of Retro Gamer magazine featured a write up on my Demon Attack remake! Retro Gamer is a UK magazine that's fully dedicated to retrogames. Please take a look at a scanned image of the remake of the month article

news - April 2007 - other

And another freeware game is ready for download. It's the Paashaasschaamhaarverzamelaar! Yes Sir. This one is not a remake. It's just a small game that, again, was made for a mini competition held by Retroremakes. The Paashaasschaamhaarverzamelaar can be downloaded here (Should work on all Windows systems with directx 7 or higher installed).

news - February 2007 - remakes

Finished another remake. It's The Empire Strikes Back mini remake which you can download from the remakes page. The game was an entry for the Retroremakes Calculator-me-do minicompetition and had to be a 160 x 100, 4 shades, grayscale game that theoretically could run on a TI calculator.

news - January 2007 - remakes/site

I've been told that this months Retro Gamer magazine features a write up on my Demon Attack remake! Retro Gamer is a UK magazine that's fully dedicated to retrogames. I will order a copy of the magazine someday soon.

For some weeks now I've been busy updating this site. Also moved to a new hosting provider and registered a domain name. The site has three pages now. an introduction/news page, a retro remakes page and a Scramble fan page.

news - December 2006 - remakes

Hoo-rah! The results of the Retro Remakes Competition 2006 have been published. Demon Attack finished 10th and on top of that received one of the judge's spot prizes! You can read the reviews here and all the games are still available for you to download here. Please download the latest version of Demon Attack from the remakes page.

news - October 2006 - scramble

Last month a new Scramble version was released. It's a commercial clone/remake by Konami Digital Entertainment for the Xbox 360 console. It features enhanced artwork, upgraded sound, multiplayer modes and some more stuff. Please take a look at it here. Can't wait to play this!

news - September 2006 - remakes

The Retro Remakes Competition 2006 has ended. I've entered my Demon Attack remake. Please take a look at it on the remakes page. I'm now playing all the great games that other remakers have entered.

news - June 2006 - remakes

The Retro Remakes Competition 2006 has started and I'm entering the competition with a game that I owned and played a lot back in the days: "Demon Attack" (Imagic, 1982, Atari 2600 version). Worked on the new (640x480) graphics and did some coding. It's a simple game but I'll try to extend the original gameplay.

news - April 2006 - scramble/remakes

This month I ordered another Scramble remake/clone. It's from Hamster, which is a Japanese company, and it runs on Playstation 2. Because it's an import product it may take a while before it will be delivered.

In June 2006 two great events will take place. The Fifa World Cup of course, but you already knew that. The other great event that has just been announced is the 2006 Retro Remakes Competition! This is fantastic news. I think I will enter this competition. More on this later...

news - March 2006 - scramble/remakes

The last few months I've worked on my remake of Scramble. It was harder than I thought it would be but it's done. Please take a look at it on the remakes page.

On March 9 my Scramble remake was on the news page of Retro Remakes (the largest game remakes community on the Internet). Not only did it attract many people to my site, it also Inspired people to write new Scramble remakes! Very nice!

news - February 2006 - scramble

Ladies and gentlemen, It was 25 years ago when Scramble was introduced. Yes TWENTYFIVE years ago this month! My congratulations go out to Konami. Hope they make a 25th Anniversary model like Namco did with Pacman!

news - September 2005 - site

After a year or so I started working on my Scramble page again. So what did I do in the mean time? Well: Worked hard (Fulltime job). Gamed a lot (Splinter Cell). Played guitar. Went to the pub with friends. Biked a lot. Went to the pub, then tried to drive my bike, and then...broke my arm. Learned Purebasic by programming Space Invaders. Bought a new Stereo system and listened to music a lot. Bought a new computer.

But now I'm back on it and there is much to do. I've already done the technical part. Have all the pictures that I want. Now I will focus on the text. This is the hard part for me because my English is not so good. But you've already noticed that I think.

news - August 2004 - site

The page is taking shape. For now I'm very pleased with the way it looks. I took some pictures using my brother's digital camera. They are looking good but I'm not going to use them all right now. Much work goes in the preparation of the images. I try to use images of good quality but also keep an eye on the file size. I know that many people still use 56k modems.

news - July 2004 - site

Started working on the page you are looking at. The idea is to make a simple page with some information on Scramble. With of course some cool pictures, with reviews of all the versions and with a place to put my Scramble and arcade projects... More on this later...

My only experience with web design is a simple page that I made for the company I work for. That was a few years ago and it was coded in HTML v3.0. So when I started on this page I started out with HTML v3.0 then switched to HTML v4.01 and finally switched to XHTML 1.0 with CSS. When you want to know more about HTML, XHTML, CSS and stuff you can go to W3schools. I really learned a lot from this page!

As of yet (July 2004) nobody visited this page. That's because I put some code in it so that search-pages such as Google don't list my page. When this page gets interesting enough I will erase the mentioned code.