22 High-Calibre Demakes Of Modern Favourites

Bayonetta as a shmup; Dead Space on the Game Boy; and Brutal Legend as, what else, a graphical adventure. There isn’t a single miss among this gallery of de-makes done over the past couple of years by Swedish artist Junkboy.

Some of these aren’t new and may have been published elsewhere before. But they’re all here in one place, and despite their small size, are full of detail waiting to be studied.

Red Dead Redemption done in a Gun.Smoke style was kind of funny, at least to me. Capcom’s other western? Red Dead Revolver, which it dropped and sold to Rockstar.

Demake Dump [Way of the Pixel]

Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bayonetta, BioShock

Brutal Legend, Dead Space, Final Fantasy XIII

Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Killzone, Littlebigplanet

Guitar Hero, Metal Gear Solid 4, Mirror’s Edge

Noby Noby Boy, Need For Speed: Shift, Pikmin

Metroid: Other M, Sin & Punishment 2, Soulcalibur

Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 5

StarCraft, Mario Kart

Demake Dump [Pixelation]

Discuss

(11 Comments)
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    Ross Moir

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    The graphics change but the games stay the same…

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    Andrew Hobbs

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 10:43 AM

    Oh man. Final Fantasy XIII in FFVI style? YES PLEASE.

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    Mr Explody

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 10:46 AM

    What platform is the Starcraft demake targetting. I’m guessing the Gameboy Colour?

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      Corse32

      Monday, August 2, 2010 at 12:48 PM

      looks like c64 to me?

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        Xs

        Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 3:41 PM

        I likey.

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    mambodog

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    the ssbb idea looks so cool i’m considering building it in flash

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    Chuloopa

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 1:36 PM

    God how i wish playable versions of all these games were real…

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    weresmurf

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM

    Seriously, Killzone done in a CONTRA format would absolutely freakin WORK.

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    Paul S

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 2:31 PM

    These are amazing – the way he’s mimicked the style of each era is really convincing.

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    Chris Gander

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 3:48 PM

    These are fantastic. Kudos to the artist. He should release these weekly.

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    Sean Hagen

    Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 5:47 AM

    I don’t understand why they felt they had to do Mario Kart, as there was already a version for the SNES ( and seeing as the graphics in these ‘demakes’ are definitely not 8-bit, those are at least SNES or Playstation graphics ).

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