Monstercat 9 Year Anniversary

Linked below are Youtube links for each song and the originals in parentheses.

1. Pixel Terror - Sandstorm (Darude - Sandstorm)
2. Pegboard Nerds & Tia Simone - Rhythm is a Dancer (Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer)
3. Grant - Better Off Alone (Alice DJ - Better Off Alone)
4. Half an Orange & Saxsquatch - Around the World (Daft Punk - Around the World)
5. Rameses B - Children (Robert Miles - Children)
6. Stonebank & EMEL - Coming On Strong (Signum - Coming On Strong)

So recently I’ve started getting into the back end of games and looking at the people behind the scenes and it’s got me to research different developers and their history and the games they have produced, so I’m wondering what are your favourite game developers and why?

I'm interested in hearing about games that exist off the main map of gaming: games that I can't buy from any of the common storefronts and games that aren't easily playable through an emulator.

Examples of things I'm interested in hearing about:

• Long-forgotten abandonware
• Homebrew games for consoles
• Romhacks
• Legally dubious fan-games
• Total conversion mods
• ARGs
• Web games (not ones on sites like Kongregate/GameJolt though)
• Independently distributed games (that you can't get through, say, itch.io)
• Games for systems that aren't currently emulatable
• Games that have been removed from distribution
• Games with servers or content that are no longer operational
• Anything else you think fits the question, really

Tell me about the game(s) you know of and what makes them noteworthy.