8-bit demake games

Indivisible on NES. Build a big automated factory on an isolated asteroid, sell your products and send rockets into space. The Wit. NES demake of the island puzzle game by Thekla Inc. Neil Thapen. Pico-8 port of the classic puzzle game. Gameboy-style high-speed run-and-gun. Happy Frog Games. Justice Bear: Equinox Dawn. Endless runner. Bit Byte Bear. Justice Bear: Playground. Our prototypes and demakes playable with a classic handlheld interface.

Soccer Cars. Pizza Delivery Demastered Deluxe. Coffee Bat. Tubular Craze. Paul Nicholas Liquidream. Prince of Persia ish TweetTweetJam. An attempt to remake the classic "Prince of Persia" in just chars! Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more. Mario 2Dyssey. A demake of Mario Odyssey made for the demakeJam. Cogs of Combat. Bio Evil 4. Play in browser. Tokimal ZX Spectrum k 3. The most expected monkey game for your Spectrum. Pat Morita Team. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite? A pet project made with GB Studio.

Jane in the Jungle GameBoy. Tim Rachor. Low Knight Demake Jam. Jakub Wasilewski. Disco Elysium: Game Boy Edition. Hungry Knight GameBoy. Team Cherry's first baby reimagined for the GameBoy Color. Joshua Robertson. Indivisible on NES. Beside taking both major and indie games into consideration, many of the resulting games' titles are very hilarious.

There's also a list of the games and their inspirators. Gang Garrison 2 , an excellent demake of Team Fortress 2 , has gone on to become the most popular of the bunch, also thanks its posting in 4Chan, where some users started modding it without consent. The authors, however, welcomed their contributions and the game has been constantly updated. In , it was expanded into a full commercial release on PC, PS4 and Vita, called Rock Boshers DX and with an alternate graphical mode that makes it more similar to games on 8 bit consoles.

But don't get too attached to it, since, sadly, it covers only the first phases of the story. Requires two joysticks to be played but the gameplay is translated superbly.

Squish is the PSP puzzler Crush , rendered in 2D and given graphics like a shareware title from the early s. A few more recommendations here. The winner, Warning Foregone , is a simplified Warning Forever that's still quite fun. The competition version was later updated with more features and can be played on Newgrounds.

The runner-up, Sulkeis , deserved its place because it's not just a lower-tech Seiklus : while shorter and less varied, it's got completely new levels and situations that weren't present in the original like the water streams erupting after one of the treasures is found. Among the other games an honorable mention goes to Plants vs. Zombies Retro , a nice rendition of how the game could have been if it was published in , even if it's a limited Endless Game. Unfortunately they also share an annoying keyboard control scheme and it can't be changed, but do a Google search for joy-to-key if you have a joypad.

The latter got pulled because of Universal Music complaining about the chiptune rendition of the Ghostbusters theme. Ruth has produced further demakes, although they are not part of the Pixel Force series.

Ruth's most recent game is Serious Sam : The Greek Encounter , an overhead shooter in the signature 8-bit style. It's part of Croteam and Devolver Digital's initative that has produced several indie games based on the franchise. Capcom also produced Dark Void Zero. While not technically the same game but a prequel, it brings the action and flight mechanics in pixelated 2D.

Many people found it more interesting than the main game. Visually, it doesn't even resemble an 8-bit rendition of the original, but at least it manages to convey the story of the original.

A patch has been made to translate it into English and make it more faithful to the original. Halo has had a demake as early as Halo Zero a link. Halo , available both as a rom and in Flash. A few cartridges have also been produced. Ironically, it's made by Ed Fries, a former Microsoft employee who was instrumental in bringing Bungie to Microsoft in the early s.

Bringing Tomb Raider to Atari or so specifics it's a bit above that, however resulted in Retro Raider , basically Pitfall! Another Guitar Hero demake: Shredz It needs some specific hardware though, to plug a guitar controller to the Commodore 64!

Fallout 3 as a JRPG. Made by Bethsoft themselves to introduce the Japanese public to the game. Minecraft users couldn't resist the temptation to remake maps from other games in cubed glory. Here's an example with a multiplayer map of the first Halo. Modern Warfare 2D. Portal: The Flash Version , a bit more technically advanced than the previously listed two. Later zigzagged by mappack for original game closely based on its levels.

Final Fantasy X , an NES-like demake headphones warning that barely qualifies, given that it only has three themes, two maps, and no battles or interaction. It might PC executable given how the Chinese? My-N-Craft , a Minecraft demake made with Microsoft Powerpoint?! Among the countless hacks of Super Mario Bros. MooD , an arena shooter.

The game it refers to is quite obvious. Left 4K Dead , another mini-demake by Notch. The graphics are actually ported well. Counter-Strike 2D. Mega Man , made in to run on an authentic machine, although it's only a short demo. Wolfenstein 1-D. Wait, what? Wolfenstein 3-D 's first level has been ported to Pico You can play it here. Originally a fangame, it impressed Valve so much they used it as an official promotional product. The official site is defunct but the game is still among Steam's free games.

There's also Half-Life 2D , but it's quite a lousy game. See a trailer. Interestingly, the project started before the actual release of the original Portal and was based on how the game appeared in the first videos released by Valve. The authors are the same as Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch.

Portal on the Commodore Playable on both emulators and original hardware, it maintains a modern control scheme keyboard to move Chell, mouse or joystick to direct and shoot portals , it offers 20 chambers and a chiptune rendition of the ending song once you clear them. It was released with a fake press release from an angry indie developer claiming Ace Team stole their idea. Doom Parody , a Flash Gamebook-esque take on Doom with static images and limited animation. Which is Instead of being just Doom backported into its predecessor for better or worse, it has an original and long storyline narrated in the internal "Read This!

There's also Doom 4 Doom. While Doom 4 Vanilla makes no changes to the gameplay, D4D brings in elements like weapon mods and glory kills. Pac - Txt , in the style of a text-based adventure game.

It even allows you to unlock some exclusive content in the main game. G-Force is an overhead 2D rendition of Tempest , the most recent versions exactly, given the Amazing Technicolor Battlefield. Interestingly, it is also based on a little-known home computer game with the same name, dating back to circa , which already tried to translate the gameplay with one less dimension.

No more official page but can be found here. Edmund McMillen, creator of Super Meat Boy , asked some fellow indie developers to draw title screens for warp zones, with the basic idea "if Super Meat Boy was your game".

You can try it here. Sewer Shark is an infamous FMV game.