Video game remakes are becoming increasingly common, for better or worse.

Here’s how new releases are reviving lost games.

Without these resources, the PS1Spyrotrilogycouldn’t be ported to other consoles.

A leaked screenshot of the aleged Oblivion remaster.

More importantly, it finally brought these games to modern platforms.

MegaPixel studio partially revived the original arcade experience withThe House of the Dead: Remake.

The House of the Deadisn’t the only poorly preserved arcade game.

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Plenty of other arcade classics are at risk of becoming lost media.

Some games are simply delisted from digital storefronts and never ported to other systems, leaving them permanently inaccessible.

One example of this isKingdom Hearts coded, anepisodicspinoff of theKingdom Heartsseries developed exclusively for mobile phones.

A pile of retro game controllers.

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The game was divided into eight episodes, which were released periodically from 2008 to 2010.

Thankfully,codedreceived a DS remake in 2010 titledKingdom Hearts Re:coded.

Re:Codedalso represents a rare case of a mobile game being remade.

Promotional art for Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

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Early attempts started out asmods and custom mapsfor games such asDying Light,Fallout 4, andMinecraft.

(which is now delisted).

Arguably the best of these fanmade remakes is Artur Laczkowski’sP.T Emulation.

Promotional art for The House of the Dead: Remake, showing three zombies.

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Using Unreal Engine 4,P.T.

Emulationdelivers a stunningly faithful recreation ofP.T.that perfectly replicates the original’s most terrifying moments.P.T.

5Silent Hill 2

P.T.wasn’t the first time aSilent Hillgame became lost media.

Promotional Art featuring characters from Kingdom Hearts Re:coded.

Konami lost the source code for the first fourSilent Hillgames on the PS1 and PS2.

Yet theSilent Hill 2remake could also be the best way for newcomers to experience the game.

Unfortunately,The Sumerian Gameis also one of the first video games to become lost media.

A screenshot of Silent Hill 2 Remake

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Imitators likeHamurabiandKing of Sumeriabrought heavily simplified versions ofThe Sumerian Gameto home computers, but the original game essentially disappeared.

Earlier this year, programmer and historian Andrea Contato releaseda free remake ofThe Sumerian Gameon Steam.

Contato utilized documentation and printouts from the original IBM studies to restore as much of the game as possible.

A pre-release screenshot from Silent Hill 2 remake.

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Promotional art for The Sumerian Game remake.

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Gameplay from the Sumerian Game remake.

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