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* ''G-Force'' is an overhead 2D rendition of ''[[Tempest (video game)|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 1983, which already tried to translate the gameplay with one less dimension. No more official page but can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131204135343/http://freeware.remakes.org/index.php?genre=&rand=0&sl=&al=G here.]
* Edmund McMillen, creator of ''[[Meat Boy|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". Among them Terry Cavanagh, who had so much fun he decided to throw in a little game out of it, looking a lot like his own ''[[VVVVVV]]''. [http://distractionware.com/blog/?p=1930 You can try it here.]
* ''[[Sewer Shark]]'' is an infamous [[Full Motion Video|FMV game]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090302070357/http://www.parkproductions.btinternet.co.uk/sewershark.htm The demake by Park Productions]{{Dead link}} turns it into a vertical scrolling shooter, nothing exceptional but certainly more playable than the original. In a nice touch, you can choose to have it look like it's a Commodore 64, Spectrum, or Amstrad CPC game.
* ''[[Super Smash Land]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' as it would've been on the [[Game Boy]].
* ''[http://www.pineight.com/lu/ Luminesweeper]'', a GBA demake of ''[[Lumines]]'' made as a protest against the high price of the [[PlayStation Portable]] at launch.