In Real Life

See All Of Ocarina Of Time’s Overworld Remapped In A Link To The Past’s Style

Continuing today’s theme of “Superhuman Efforts that Deserve a Standing Ovation”, we now turn our attention to The Legend of Zelda. MaJoRa, a member of the Zelda Fan Game Central community, has rendered all of the overworld from Ocarina of Time in the 2D style of A Link to the Past.


September 30, 2011
PC

Team Fortress Demake Is Out, Free

Team Fortress 2 demake, Team Fortress Arcade, which we showed in the past, is released today, free of charge. Game designer Eric Ruth is the creator, so credit him for this good work! Visit Piki Geek for the download.


September 17, 2011
PC

Smash Bros PC Demake Super Smash Land Is Out, Free

Super Smash Land, the PC ‘demake’ of the beloved Super Smash Bros series is here in full, free of charge and looking faithfully Game Boy-esque.


January 4, 2011
Retro

What If Fallout: New Vegas Was A Japanese RPG From 1987?

Bethesda beats any potential fan-made Fallout: New Vegas demakes to the punch by creating its own for the Japanese New Vegas website. It’s all in Japanese, but old school role-playing is the universal language.


December 23, 2010
Retro

Inevitably, The 8-Bit Halo De-Make Lands In January

The de-make craze shows no sign of abating. Pixel Force, following its successes with Left 4 Dead and DJ Hero homages, will reduce Halo to an 8-bit platformer (with top-down Warthog driving) next month. But, erm, about Cortana …


December 19, 2010
In Real Life

Demo Now Available For Super Smash Bros De-Make

Super Smash Land, a Super Smash Bros. game remade to the constraints of the GameBoy (but not, literally, for it) has a playable demo now available for free on the PC.


December 14, 2010
In Real Life

Super Smash Bros ‘De-made’ For Game Boy Looks Crazy

This is Super Smash Land, the Game Boy release of Nintendo’s bestselling brawler that never existed until now. And, yes, that’s Kirby and Mario duking it out at Peach’s Castle in monochromatic glory.


September 20, 2010

Alan Wake — The 8-Bit Demake

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August 2, 2010
In Real Life

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.