Demakes
Remakes of modern games in the style of legacy systems. Usually fangames, but occasionally official. Some of them actually playable on legacy systems.
Please let me know of more!
Some demakes not listed on Backloggd:
- Retro Raider [Tomb Raider as an Atari game]
- Bit of War [8-bit God of War]
- Limbo C64 [Commodore 64 demake of Limbo]
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Pocket Horror [Game Boy Color demake]
- Skyrim Mobile [demake/reinterpretation for TI-84 calculator (!!)]
- Super 3D Portals 6 [Portal as an Atari game]
- Portal, for the C64
- ASCIIpOrtal
- Pixel Force: DJ Hero
- Shredz64 [Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64]
- Modern Warfare 2D
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2D [2D version of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)]
- Grand Theftendo [Grand Theft Auto III as an NES game - prototype only]
- Shen Qi De Mao Zi [Famicom backport of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap as a turn-based RPG]
- Ocarina of Time 2D [at least 3 different versions of this – 2 abandoned at the demo stage, 1 in progress]
- Ocarina of Time: GB [Game Boy Color - demo only]
- Fableous [8-bit Fable demake]
- Bethesda's official (!) demake of Fallout 3 as a JRPG [in Japanese - no ENG translation available that I can find]
- World of Warcraft: The Molten Core [Atari 2600 demake based on an April Fool's joke from Blizzard]
- Chrono Trigger NES demake [Chinese bootleg]
- Final Fantasy X NES demake [prototype only]
- Donkey Kong Country NES demake
- Super Mario World NES demake [Chinese bootleg]
- Bloodborne PSX [work in progress]
- Princess Rescue [Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600]
- Resident Evil Demake [as an NES action RPG]
- Bio Hazard [Resident Evil as an NES game - Chinese bootleg]
- Mega Man 2600 [Atari - demo only]
- Mega Man 2: Atari De-Make
- Ultimate Mortal Combat 3 Game Boy Color port
- Touhou Reiiden ~ Highly Responsive to Prayers NES Demake
- Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland NES Demake
- Castlevania Atari demake [hack of Roc 'N Rope]
- UFO: Enemy Unknown and UFO 2: Devils of Abyss ZX Spectrum demakes
- Curse of Monkey Island Classic Edition [demo only]
- King's Quest V: The Text Adventure
- Pax-Txt [PacMan as a text adventure]
- J. Robinson's Wheeler's Centipede [text adventure]
- The Stanly Parable LD Demix [text adventure]
(I may go through and add links to these at some point, but a lot of them are hard to find, as the original hosting sites are no longer online)
Please let me know of more!
Some demakes not listed on Backloggd:
- Retro Raider [Tomb Raider as an Atari game]
- Bit of War [8-bit God of War]
- Limbo C64 [Commodore 64 demake of Limbo]
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Pocket Horror [Game Boy Color demake]
- Skyrim Mobile [demake/reinterpretation for TI-84 calculator (!!)]
- Super 3D Portals 6 [Portal as an Atari game]
- Portal, for the C64
- ASCIIpOrtal
- Pixel Force: DJ Hero
- Shredz64 [Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64]
- Modern Warfare 2D
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2D [2D version of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)]
- Grand Theftendo [Grand Theft Auto III as an NES game - prototype only]
- Shen Qi De Mao Zi [Famicom backport of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap as a turn-based RPG]
- Ocarina of Time 2D [at least 3 different versions of this – 2 abandoned at the demo stage, 1 in progress]
- Ocarina of Time: GB [Game Boy Color - demo only]
- Fableous [8-bit Fable demake]
- Bethesda's official (!) demake of Fallout 3 as a JRPG [in Japanese - no ENG translation available that I can find]
- World of Warcraft: The Molten Core [Atari 2600 demake based on an April Fool's joke from Blizzard]
- Chrono Trigger NES demake [Chinese bootleg]
- Final Fantasy X NES demake [prototype only]
- Donkey Kong Country NES demake
- Super Mario World NES demake [Chinese bootleg]
- Bloodborne PSX [work in progress]
- Princess Rescue [Super Mario Bros for Atari 2600]
- Resident Evil Demake [as an NES action RPG]
- Bio Hazard [Resident Evil as an NES game - Chinese bootleg]
- Mega Man 2600 [Atari - demo only]
- Mega Man 2: Atari De-Make
- Ultimate Mortal Combat 3 Game Boy Color port
- Touhou Reiiden ~ Highly Responsive to Prayers NES Demake
- Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland NES Demake
- Castlevania Atari demake [hack of Roc 'N Rope]
- UFO: Enemy Unknown and UFO 2: Devils of Abyss ZX Spectrum demakes
- Curse of Monkey Island Classic Edition [demo only]
- King's Quest V: The Text Adventure
- Pax-Txt [PacMan as a text adventure]
- J. Robinson's Wheeler's Centipede [text adventure]
- The Stanly Parable LD Demix [text adventure]
(I may go through and add links to these at some point, but a lot of them are hard to find, as the original hosting sites are no longer online)
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[semi-?]official
demo / proof of concept only (short portion of start of game)
originally a demake of Red Faction for ZX Spectrum, before being developed into an original game
Chinese bootleg (using FF1 as its base); modders from Romhacking.net have also created a revamped version of this demake, bringing it closer to the original PS1 game
official
official
