Today’s games are great, but they just don’t carry the same immeasurable nostalgic value as, say, Chrono Trigger, Link’s Awakening, or even Number Crunchers. Now Stockholm-based pixel artist Junkboy has hypothesized for Swedish magazine Level what it might have looked like had contemporary games—Arkham Asylum, Bioshock, Guitar Hero, Little Big Planet, Red Dead Redemption, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Soul Calibur, and more—existed in the golden age of 8- and 16-bit gaming. Of course, several of these games indeed had low-bit predecessors!

Compare the full series of “demake” images to their modern originals, below.

Arkham Asylum

Bayonetta

Bioshock





Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Brutal Legend





Dead Space





Final Fantasy XIII

Guitar Hero





Killzone





Little Big Planet





Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots



Mirror’s Edge





Noby Noby Boy





Need for Speed: Shift





Metroid: Other M





Pikmin





Red Dead Redemption





Resident Evil 5





Sin & Punishment: Star Successor







Soul Calibur





Starcraft







Super Mario Kart





Previously on Geekosystem: 15 Retro Video Game Company Logos and their Modern-Day Counterparts.

(Way of the Pixel via Reddit. Junkboy on DeviantART and pixeljoint.)

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