One of my favorite games of all time is Alley Cat, which I originally played on my uncle's computer when I was four. Its author, Bill William's, past away in 1998, and the game itself never saw any sequels or remakes. But it clearly made an impact on a lot of kids as these days it's relatively easy to download the original online.

The best way to play it today though might be Joflof's AlleyCat Remeow Edition, a remake with new new stages, graphics and sound.

So many remakes feature odd looking “modern” graphics which are unsettlingly incongruent to the ones they replace, or find other ways to kill the charm of the original. But Joflof has managed to create modern, colorful hand drawn art that is bursting with personality all its own while maintaining amazing fidelity to the spirit of the original.

HardCore Gaming 101 features a link to the Remeow Edition in their article about the original game but (unusually for the site) neglected to write up anything at all about the remake despite going into details about three earlier ones. So I'll say something: it's good! You should play it even though the download is hosted on Game Jolt, the kind of site that screams “have you updated your antivirus definitions today?”