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Re:Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6) by mathnode on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:10AM (#33355880)
The term "demake" is really popular in the fantasy console scene:

https://itch.io/games/tag-demake/tag-pico-8

Some of these projects like Alone in the Dark and UnduneII are incredible.

The forum post for UnduneII has lots of info on it's creation: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=47155

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Re:Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6) by mdtrooper on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:07AM (#33356327)
Well, the first famous "demake" was fan version of GTA for NES. But the project really dead...very cold dead.

I am not sure but I think that the developer changed the game title and the platform.

https://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Grand_Theftendo

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Re:Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6) by vanderZwan on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:21AM (#33356462)
> I am not sure but I think that the developer changed the game title and the platform.

Correct, the wiki actually mentions this:

> It was developed in 2002, and was due to be released in Fall of 2005. It was never released, and instead it was replaced with a brand new game, Retro City Rampage.

Here is the game in question:

https://www.vblank.com/RetroCityRampage/

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Re:Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6) by bitwize on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:15AM (#33357009)
When I first saw Retro City Rampage I thought of Grand Theftendo, but I didn't know they were related!

Retro City Rampage did actually get "retro system" releases -- for DOS and Windows 3.1.

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Re:Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6) by aasasd on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:29AM (#33359052)
There were official GTA 1-2 for Gameboy Color, so I'm not sure there was even much need for that effort.

(There was also ‘Driver’ for GBC.)

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