Mega Man 9 is done entirely as an NES-style game, essentially making it an NES game on high-definition consoles (and WiiWare, where it makes a bit more sense).As such, it presents itself in that style, from the wacky characters and colourful locales, to the Nintendo 64-era graphics. MacBat 64: Journey of a Nice Chap is a love letter to late 90s-era 3D Platformers like Banjo-Kazooie.But the pace of the song is still rather slow, and just enough of it was changed to make it feel not quite right before the piano takes back over and the song loops. The chiptune eventually starts taking over the piano and starts playing the Green Greens theme from Kirby's Dream Land. In the same game, during the fight with Void in Soul Melter EX, the boss song is rather somber compared to the series' usual fast-paced and intense boss songs, and eventually starts adding chiptune to the theme.Kirby Star Allies also has a black-and-white level at the end of the final secret stage, as one of the many references to the older Kirby games.The level returns intact in the Game Boy Advance remake Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, where it makes more sense, given that the GBA is the direct successor to the Game Boy and is backwards-compatible with its games. What makes this example particularly odd is that Dream Land was only released one year before Adventure. The penultimate stage in Kirby's Adventure mimics the black-and-white look of the previous installment, Kirby's Dream Land, which was on the Game Boy.JumpJet Rex, which was released in 2015, features 16-bit graphics and music similar to the games that inspired it, like the earlier Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog titles.Homestar Runner RPG, a cancelled RPG running on the Atari 2600.Of note is this one, which parodies the typical poorly designed Geocities-like website common before the abundance of competent graphics and web designers. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories features similar aesthetics in some of its fake websites, appearing like those circa 1998.Rockstar created a fake eXsorbeo fansite containing another "emulator" for one game from 1991, with monochrome and pixelated graphics not dissimilar to those of classic Game Boy games.Done again with the eXsorbeo in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a parody of the Game Boy.Similarly, on Rockstar Games' website, as a tie-in for Vice City there is a "fanpage" devoted to the Degenatron, a primitive parody of second generation video game consoles, complete with working "emulations" of its three "8-bit" games and a supposedly old scan of a Degenatron magazine ad.Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game from 2002, mimics the loading screen of a Commodore 64 upon booting up, a reference to the game's 1986 setting.
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Giana Sisters DS tries to capture the look and feel of a late 80's-early 90's PC 2D game.
Ghoulboy is rendered in 16-bit style, including chip-tune music.The graphics style of Duck Game evokes this trope, while the promotional images evoke the style of hand-drawn game covers of the era.Flesh Birds is based on original First-Person Shooters like Doom, being rendered in 16-bit flat images in a 3D world.else Heart.Break(): The game is 3D, but the textures are pixellated.
There is also a 1923 Mode option which turns these effects on in the main game.