Free & Open Source Clones & Remakes of Retro Games

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xminesweep

Clone of Minesweeper

A 1993 X11 Minesweeper clone by Ashley Roll, with an optional cheat mode to reveal a safe square.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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2019-Bomber

Clone of Kaboom!

A Kaboom! clone written in Turbo BASIC XL for Atari 8-bit computers, made for the 2019 10-line BASIC programming contest's PUR-120 category.

Platforms:Atari

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Updated6 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2020

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Adventure In Time

Clone of Adventure in Time

The official archived source code and disk images for Adventure In Time (Phoenix Software), playable on Apple II and Atari 8-bit hardware.

Platforms:AtariApple II

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Updated4 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Adventure

Theme: —

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Alleyway

Clone of Alleyway

A full disassembly of the Game Boy title Alleyway, able to rebuild a ROM matching the known release, verified against a stated MD5 checksum.

Platforms:Game Boy

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Updated5 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2019

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Arkanoid (Rust)

Clone of Arkanoid

An Arkanoid clone written in Rust, with pre-compiled Windows/Linux binaries or a Cargo build; semi-complete, development halted.

Platforms:None

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Updated3 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2022

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Arkanoid TUI

Clone of Arkanoid

A terminal-based Arkanoid implementation built with the Ratatui library in Rust, installable via Cargo; semi-complete, development halted.

Platforms:None

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Updated2 years ago

LicenseApache-2.0

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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Ascent

Clone of Descent

A Descent-inspired 3D shooter with six-degrees-of-freedom movement, built in C++ with the OGRE 3D engine; playable but sporadic.

Platforms:None

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Updated10 months ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2025

Genre: FPS

Theme: Sci-Fi

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BUGS

Clone of Dr. Mario

BUGS is a terminal-based Dr. Mario clone written in K&R C with ncurses for Linux, placed in the Public Domain and updated in 2015.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated6 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2019

Genre: Puzzle

Theme: —

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Babaliba

Clone of Babaliba

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

Stars0

Updated11 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2015

Genre: Arcade

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BaconBytes.StarTrek

Clone of Star Trek

A C# port of the classic Star Trek text game, based on a community BASIC rewrite, including multiple translated and rewritten versions.

Platforms:None

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Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2024

Genre: Simulation

Theme: Sci-Fi

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Billig-Sweeper

Clone of Minesweeper

Billig-Sweeper is a simple SDL2 Minesweeper clone with keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen controls, including pinch-zoom and swipe panning.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated4 years ago

LicenseGPL-3.0

Release2022

Genre: Puzzle

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Bong

Clone of Pong

Bong is a freeware Pong clone for BeOS by Gertjan van Ratingen, started as a joystick sample app, with joystick and keyboard controls.

Platforms:BeOS

Stars0

Updated8 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2014

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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BoulderBombers

Clone of Boulder Bombers

BoulderBombers is a Public Domain conversion of Mark Price's Boulder Bombers to the Foenix F256 platform.

Platforms:Atari

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Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: —

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Breakout Rust

Clone of Breakout

Breakout Rust is a Breakout clone with core logic in Rust compiled to WebAssembly, using a thin JS/HTML layer for rendering and input.

Platforms:Web

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseMIT

Release2024

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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C Pong SDL

Clone of Pong

C Pong SDL is a basic C/SDL2 Pong implementation with ball physics and scoring, called an unpolished first SDL project by its author.

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated2 years ago

LicenseUnlicense

Release2023

Genre: Arcade

Theme: —

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C# Asteroids

Clone of Asteroids

C# Asteroids is a vector-based Asteroids clone using GDI graphics and DirectX sound, based on a CodeProject article by Howard Uman.

Platforms:Windows

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Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2012

Genre: Arcade

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Centicrawler

Clone of Centipede

Centicrawler is an SDL2/C++17 clone of the 1981 arcade game Centipede, adding new elements like a two-player mode not in the original.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated1 month ago

LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Release2026

Genre: Shooter

Theme: Fantasy

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City_Connection

Clone of City Connection

City_Connection is an NES homebrew project for 8bitworkshop, named after the arcade game City Connection, with no further detail given.

Platforms:Web

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Updated4 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2021

Genre: Platform

Theme: —

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ClaimJumper

Clone of Claim Jumper

ClaimJumper preserves the original 6502 assembly source for Atari 400/800's Claim Jumper, modified to assemble with the 64Tass assembler.

Platforms:Atari

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Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Action

Theme: Western

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Classic Kong

Clone of Donkey Kong

Platforms:SNES

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Updated10 years ago

LicenseApache*

Release2016

Genre: Platform

Theme: —

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ClassicStarTrek

Clone of Star Trek

Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX

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Updated4 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2022

Genre: Simulation

Theme: Sci-Fi

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CoU_Server

Clone of Glitch

Platforms:None

Stars0

Updated9 years ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2017

Genre: MMORPG

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Crack'ed

Clone of Crack'ed

This repository preserves what its README describes, with some uncertainty, as the original Atari 2600 source code for Crack'ed.

Platforms:Atari

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Updated1 year ago

LicenseUnknown

Release2025

Genre: Shooter

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Deathchase 3D

Clone of Deathchase

Deathchase 3D is an unfinished SDL 1.2 remake by Paul Robson (2002), with no sound but many command-line tuning parameters.

Platforms:Linux

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Updated2 years ago

LicenseGPL-2.0

Release2018

Genre: Racing

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