Not-Classic Games?

[Blue Protoman]

You know how some games always impersonate past generations by having 8/16-bit sounds and graphics or whatever?  And how they're not really classic games, but look like you could pass them off as one?  I'm talking about games that actually try to fake being classic, not those cheapass Mario fangames with SMB graphics, MIDI music and SMW sounds.

What games do you know of that are like this?  Oh, and they don't have to be commercial games.

These are the Not-Classic games I know of...

• Gradius Rebirth (WiiWare)


• MegaMan 9 (WiiWare)


• Retro Game Challenge (DS)


• GameCenter CX 2 (DS, Japan only, DO WANT AMERICAN RELEASE)

[Rogles]

La-Mulana. Not a commercial release, but still absolutely amazing and huge in scale.

http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=lamulana

A really comprehensive review:
http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=193

[nurd]

Cave Story

[Rogles]

AWWWWW YEAH! Cave Story is actually like in my top 5 favorite games. It's just.... flawless.

[Blue Protoman]

Joystick Johnny is great.  And, there's all those games which pretend to be handheld LCD games, like Shit Catcher or Asteroid Field (which I made).  Look for some fake LCD games at www.handheld.remakes.org.

[manuel]

There's this weird Sega game in WiiWare in Japan, called "Paul's Big Adventure".

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wpdj/index.html

[Blue Protoman]

Oh, yeah!  I've heard of that.  Except I believe it's Pole's Big Adventure.  I don't think it's coming to America, though. 

POLE'S BIG ADVENTURE DO WANT

There's also a Galaga-esque game called Shippy 1984.  It's for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Dreamcast.

[manuel]

Could perfectly be "Pole", too from the reading alone.

But to me tha mein character just looks like a good old "Paul".

[Byron]

There's a homebrew PC game floating around out there called
"I Wanna Be The Guy." Looks like an SNES platformer. It's freeware, and I highly recommend downloading it.

[nintendodork]

SUPER OBAMA WORLD

[Rogles]

IWBTG is a good one.

[son_ov_hades]

SUPER OBAMA WORLD

LOL that's great! I wish I had played that during the election.

[zombiepowder]

once you beat "Me & My Katamari" (PSP) you unlock the credits where you can play through an 8-Bit side scrolling katamari game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe08F2SX0Ng

[Blue Protoman]

SUPER OBAMA WORLD

WHAT THE FUCK

[nintendodork]

I'm tempted to buy that shirt
I'm surprised they haven't added any levels since he became president.  I figured they would've added some sort of White House level, or something.  But oh well...I like it!