As a gamer raised on a diet of 8 and 16 bit games, their general aesthetic invokes an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Things like this though – combining my love of modern games with the heady wistfulness of bygone eras – make me giddy.
After the jump you’ll find a collection of videogame demakes created by Swedish artist Junkboy. – pieces of videogame art in which new games are made to look as if they’d been released many years previous. They’re all pretty damned awesome, and some of them are frightfully clever – particularly Red Dead Redemption. If you’ll recall, Red Dead Revolver was originally a Capcom property before being acquired by Rockstar. Its been demade to look like Gun.Smoke, Capcom’s 1985 Western-themed arcade and NES shooter.
Scroll slowly, and see if you can name them all!
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Resident Evil 5
Bioshock
Batman Arkham Asylum
Metroid Prime
Little Big Planet
Pikmin
Soul Calibur
Mario Kart
Red Dead Redemption
Brutal Legend
Killzone 2
Guitar Hero
Final Fantasy XIII
Bayonetta
Need for Speed
Metal Gear Solid 4
Sin and Punishmet 2
Mirror’s Edge
Dead Space
Super Smash Bros.
Noby Noby Boy
Starcraft
As seen on Way of the Pixel
squirrely
August 3, 2010 at 14:59
I would have preferred Mirrors Edge as a platformer!
Fox1
August 3, 2010 at 15:45
Atleast I feel young for not knowing most of the originals :wassat:
ReAVeR
August 3, 2010 at 15:57
Shame on you!
Bobby Kotick ruler of New Zealand
August 3, 2010 at 16:01
LOL! This is pretty cool. I wouldn’t mind that version of Soul Calibur and I would have preferred Final Fantasy XIII going back to its 8bit roots.
Bobby Kotick ruler of New Zealand
August 3, 2010 at 16:01
Lol Fox1! Oh man you’re funny!
WrathZA
August 3, 2010 at 16:59
Am I the only one that thinks Brutal Legend would have been a better game as an adventure game! :pirate:
Nick de Bruyne
August 3, 2010 at 17:01
Seeing it in the same style as Full Throttle makes me so sad, I want more of that :heart: :heart:
koldFU5iON
August 4, 2010 at 09:09
ah yes full throttle :heart: :heart: :heart: