The Best Playable Video Game Demakes

**Valigarmander** · 04-19-2011, 01:40 PM

New Games, Old Systems: The Best (Playable!) Video Game Demakes from 1UP.com

What's funner than playing a modern video game? Playing the same game if it were made 30 years ago!

Dizzy · 04-19-2011, 02:02 PM

Suprised this wasn't on there.

Regardless, I've heard of almost none of those demakes on that list.

***Cosmonautical*** · 04-21-2011, 05:36 AM

It's a cool list, but the writer apparently doesn't know much about the hardware he's comparing the mock games to.

He claims that looks like a PC game from 1993.

You know what made a big splash in PC games, 93?

Doom.

Gabriel Knight.

Myst.

Laika Come Home · 04-22-2011, 05:28 PM

Did he mean 1983? Because you're right, graphics had certainly advanced past that by 1993.

***Cosmonautical*** · 04-26-2011, 05:02 AM

I'm guessing not, since he compared it to Lemmings, which is similar in appearance.. on Amiga computers from 1987, with more detailed backgrounds. Even that launched in 1991.

Quote:

Despite looking like it's from 1993, no game had online options like this until 1996 and Quake.

And to be fair, it probably plays more like Hunter Hunted than Quake, which was another game in the first wave of online titles from 96.

Chaos Deviot · 05-16-2011, 12:51 AM

So this won't count for actual game companies de-making their own games/gameplay, just referring to the link's games, right? Just want to clarify before I say something stupid.

04-19-2011, 01:40 PM	#1
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04-21-2011, 05:36 AM	#3
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,156 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	It's a cool list, but the writer apparently doesn't know much about the hardware he's comparing the mock games to. He claims that looks like a PC game from 1993. You know what made a big splash in PC games, 93? Doom. Gabriel Knight. Myst. Last edited by Cosmonautical; 04-21-2011 at 05:45 AM.

04-19-2011, 02:02 PM	#2
Dizzy Podiaphobe Join Date: Oct 2007 Gender: Posts: 19,359 Thanks: 1,764 Thanked 1,161 Times in 804 Posts Blog Entries: 116	Suprised this wasn't on there. Regardless, I've heard of almost none of those demakes on that list.

04-22-2011, 05:28 PM	#4
Laika Come Home Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Gender: Posts: 615 Thanks: 214 Thanked 77 Times in 45 Posts Blog Entries: 1	Did he mean 1983? Because you're right, graphics had certainly advanced past that by 1993.

05-16-2011, 12:51 AM	#6
Chaos Deviot The Betrayer Join Date: May 2004 Location: Mt. Moon Gender: Posts: 1,813 Thanks: 171 Thanked 52 Times in 49 Posts Blog Entries: 1	So this won't count for actual game companies de-making their own games/gameplay, just referring to the link's games, right? Just want to clarify before I say something stupid.