In 2006 I wrote a game called Gridfire, which was a remake of Crossfire by Sierra Online on the c64. I was quite pleased with my remake, although it did not have the typical music (a variant on the Peter Gunn theme) the c64 version had. Unfortunately I don’t have the game up for download anymore as a few years ago it started to show some issues on modern PCs. (Maybe I should look into it again one day.) Here’s a video of my game:
A funny thing happened today when I browsed the internet to see if my own game was mentioned somewhere, and I found in “Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality” by Melanie Swalwell that in 1983 a remake of Crossfire on the Apple had been made by Vaughan Clarkson for the MicroBee home computer, and his remake was called Gridfire as well! I had not heard of his version before but did pick the same name! Here’s a video that I can only assume to be of Vaughan Clarkson’s 1983 Gridfire: