These days it’s all about upscaling. We’ve got ray-traced retro games, films from the early 1900s at 60 fps, heck, look at what they did to Final Fantasy VII.

Demakes are exactly what they sound like — taking a new title, for example, Resident Evil Village, and deconstructing it into something more nostalgic, more primal, more... pixelated.

Resident Evil isn’t the only title blessed with a demake by Hoolopee. Death Stranding, for example, got a PS1 rendition of its official trailer, and Halo Infinite got the N64 treatment.

While you can’t play any of Hoolopee’s demakes there are titles out there that offer an experience beyond just watching games in retro graphics. Halo 2600, for example, is a demake of Halo that even comes on an honest-to-God playable Atari cartridge.

Whether you want to play retrofied games or just watch them, nostalgia is obviously the driving force here, and there is something pretty gratifying about seeing modern titles get transported to another time, even if nothing will ever quite top what’s possibly the best low-poly pondering of all time...