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[[caption-width-right:322:Guess which one came first. <ref>(Above, [[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|the real deal {1999}]]. Below, the [[Super Smash Land (Video Game)|fan-made demake {2011}]].)</ref>
The polar opposite of a [[Video Game Remake]]. While a remake strives to offer an updated version of the game, both from a technical and a gameplay standpoint, a demake is purposedly built as an interpretation of how the game may have been, if it was conceived and produced during a previous hardware or software generation. This means simpler graphics and sound, and simplified gameplay although the basics are mostly kept, often translated from 3D to 2D. It is often a [[Self
Due to their nature of being based on copyrighted material, demakes are usually fan-made and [[Freeware Games|freeware]] (which hasn’t saved a few from [[Screwed By the Lawyers|getting Cease & Desist letters]]); there are also the Chinese bootleg NES ports, often [[Porting Disaster|very bad]]. The rise of retro gaming, however, has made some official productions appear. Beside real and playable games, there are artists who have fun creating mock-up pictures of demade games, often taking the original resolution and palette limitations of old gaming machines into account.
A subtrope of [[Retraux]].
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** Among the other games an honorable mention goes to ''[[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]] [http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/strategy-sim/plants-vs-zombies-retro/2796/ Retro]'', a nice rendition of how the game could have been if it was published in 1986, even if it's a limited [[Endless Game]].
* [http://www.ericruthgames.com/ Eric Ruth]'s ''Pixel Force'' series, famous game franchises as if they were released on the NES in [[The Eighties]]. Unfortunately they also share an annoying keyboard control scheme (and it can't be changed). So far he has produced three: ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' as an overhead shooter for one or two players, and with the locales of the first game reproduced quite faithfully; the first ''[[Halo]]'' as a ''[[Contra]]''-esque platform/shooter, with a few overhead sections on vehicles and appropriately chip-tuned musical themes; and ''[[DJ Hero]]'', complete with hit songs from the era. The latter [[Screwed By the Lawyers|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. One is ''[[Team Fortress Arcade (Video Game)|Team Fortress Arcade]]'': ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' as a side-scrolling, arcade-style [[Beat
* Ruth's most recent game is ''[[Serious Sam]]: [http://www.desura.com/games/serious-sam-the-greek-encounter 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.
* ''[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Rockman_7_Famicom Rockman 7FC]'' and ''[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Rockman_8_Famicom Rockman 8FC]'', which de-make the only two non-8Bit entries of the classic [[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]] series. Interestingly, 7FC predates Capcom's own ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]] 9'', while 8FC was released between ''9'' and ''10''.
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** There's also ''[http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2d Half-Life 2D]'', but it's quite a lousy game.
* ''[http://cutstuff.net/blog/?page_id=26 ZPortal]'', the gameplay of ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'' brought in the ''[[Doom]]'' engine through the GZDoom source port. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGzjvifGb4c See a trailer.] Interestingly, the project started before the actual release of the original ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'' and was based on how the game appeared in the first videos released by Valve. The authors are the same as ''[http://cutstuff.net/mm8bdm/ Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch]''.
* ''[http://sites.google.com/site/pebbleoftime/ Pebble of Time]'', a demake of ''[[Rock of Ages (Video Game)|Rock of Ages]]'' made by ''[[Zeno Clash]]'' developers Ace Team as an [[April Fools' Day]] joke. It was released with a fake press release from an angry indie developer claiming Ace Team stole their idea.
* ''[http://www.hpfun.com/flash-games/shooting/doomparody.html Doom Parody]'', a Flash [[Choose Your Own Adventure]]-esque take on ''Doom'' with static images and limited animation.
* ''[http://www.textadventures.co.uk/review/112/ King's Quest V - The Text Adventure]''. Which is...well...a [[Text Adventure]] version of ''[[King's Quest V]]''.
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