Those expecting another Saturday filled with happy retro memories have a long wait.
I took the week off!
Mostly because coding 18 games within 3 weeks takes quite a lot out of you, but also 'cos my DS finally gave up trying to hold onto the tiny shred of hinge it had remaining. (ie, it did that whole "R-trigger side snap" thing that DSLite's tend to do!)

During this week, though, I've been thinking about Galaga.
On the one hand, it'd be nice to make a tiny retro version of the Amiga classic "Deluxe Galaga" along with attack waves, and powerups and all that jazz.
On the other hand, I could just add powerups to Invaders, and quite frankly that'd be decent enough. There's already Invaders, Asteroids and Centipede. Surely that's enough shooters, right?

But then, if I add powerups to Invaders, you lose the plainer version of Invaders.
What I'd need is some kind of extra option in the menu, somewhere, to let you switch between "Invaders" and... .. "Invaders Plus"
..
"Platdude Retro Collection : 18 Plus!"
That sounds a bit of a dodgy title! But I think that's what I'm going to aim for.
So, over the next few days I'm going to be jotting down a few ideas, (I have my pad at the ready) and seeing if I can impliment some of those into the already existant games, to build up a collection of "Plus" versions for each.
Invaders, Centipede and Asteroids will be basic Powerups. As will, probably, Extract. (Hmm. Didn't I already make Extract with power ups on the DS?! Why, yes I did!!)

Tetris's "Plus" mode will more than likely be Bombliss, because I've been saying for a couple of weeks that I should make that.

As for Snake, Tron, Pacman, Frogger, Pong, Joust, Qbert, Spike Dodge, Missile Command, DotPop, Lights Out, 5-in-a-Line and Tune Tap....
Well, lets just say that Suggestions are welcome!

And, so's nobody gets too upset. This is only an idea, and it could still fall apart.. If that happens I'll just add some more games

Oh, yeah, and here's the logo from my Drunken Coders entry, if I bother to finish it..