Seven Xbox 360 retro de-makes

Halo 2600, a de-make* of an XBox classic lovingly recreated as in 8-bit Atari graphics, has been released online by former vice president of XBox game publishing, Ed Fries. It’s not the only modern classic we’ve seen that’s been relieved from the shackles of the three-dimensions and high-resolution textures that bind today’s games. So here’s a few more:

Name: Corner’s Shiny

Remake Of: Mirror’s Edge

Remake Format: NES

Mirror’s Edge makes a natural transition to a two-dimensional platform game, this one replicates most of the original features for the NES.

Name: Large-Scale Vehicular Stealing

Remake Of: Grand Theft Auto

Remake Format: NES

The laughably tongue-in-cheek title should inspire you to take a peek at this GTA demake, recreated as a NES beat-em-up.

Name: Sexy Seaside Beachball

Remake Of: Dead Or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball

Remake Format: Spectrum

Includes real breast physics, recreated in beautiful 8-bit graphics! The crazy thing is, this game would have been considered titillating 25 years ago.

Name: Gang Garrison II

Remake Of: Team Fortress II

Remake Format: 8-Bit

A multiplayer shooter as a two-dimensional shooter? Now that’s a thought. Gang Garrison II includes nine different classed and capture the flag mode.

Name: Arcadia

Remake Of: Bioshock 2

Remake Format: Doom 2 Engine

One way to do justice to a legend in its own time is to render it in another classic game engine. So here’s Arcadia, which is Bioshock 2 using the Doom 2 engine.

Name: Left 4 Dead NES

Remake Of: Left 4 Dead

Remake Format: NES

The ever popular NES conversion takes yet another team-based shooter down a peg to the classic 2D era, this time as a top-down shooter.

Name: Halo 2600

Remake Of: Halo

Remake Format: Atari 2600

Created for the Atari 2600, this shooter de-make uses an incredibly minute four kilobytes of space. Seriously – Halo: Reach – why even bother?

*A re-make of a game using older-generation hardware, in case you hadn’t figured that out already