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===Software remakes===
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Remakes of software are revivals of old, obsolete, or discontinued software.

A good share of software remakes are [[fangame]]s of [[computer games]] and [[game engine recreation]] made by the [[fan community]] as part of [[retrogaming]], to address e.g. [[Forward compatibility|compatibility]] issues or non-availability of the original, e.g. a shutdown server gets substituted with a [[server emulator]].

Since the 2000s there has been an increasing number of commercial remakes of classical games by the original developer or publisher for current platforms as the [[digital distribution]] lowers the investment risk for niche releases.<ref name=newell2007>{{cite web|publisher=[[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]] |url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/11/21/rps-exclusive-gabe-newell-interview/|title=RPS Exclusive: Gabe Newell Interview |date=2007-11-22 |access-date=2013-06-28 |first=John |last=Walker |quote=''The worst days [for game development] were the cartridge days for the NES. It was a huge risk – you had all this money tied up in silicon in a warehouse somewhere, and so you’d be conservative in the decisions you felt you could make, very conservative in the IPs you signed, your art direction would not change, and so on. Now it’s the opposite extreme: we can put something up on Steam, deliver it to people all around the world, make changes. We can take more interesting risks.[...] Retail doesn’t know how to deal with those games. On Steam [a digital distributor] there’s no shelf-space restriction. It’s great because they’re a bunch of old, orphaned games.''}}</ref> When enhanced in some way (audio, graphics, etc.) new releases might be called "high definition" release or "special edition"; an example is ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition]]''.<ref name="monkeyislandrerelease">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/iphone/adventure/thesecretofmonkeyislandspecialedition/tech_info.html |title=The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Tech Info |publisher=[[GameSpot]] |access-date=November 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402125042/http://www.gamespot.com/iphone/adventure/thesecretofmonkeyislandspecialedition/tech_info.html |archive-date=April 2, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/06/03/e3-2009-the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition-preview|title=E3 2009: The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Preview |date=June 2, 2009 |first=Charles |last=Onyett |publisher=IGN |access-date=November 15, 2011}}</ref>