One of my favorite Remakes is Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete on the Playstation and Saturn from 1996. The original game is on Sega/Mega CD from 1992. I never played the original game on real hardware, only looked into it through emulation. In 2025 they remastered those games for multiple modern systems. Also I played the hell out of original Dune 2 on Genesis/Mega Drive in 1992. And later the Remake Dune 2000 on Playstation in 1998.

Also what constitutes to being a Remake was even harder to tell back then, because in some cases a port is a new implementation of the game that could be classified as such. BTW visit the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_remakes_and_remasters and click following to have the list sorted by Remake/Remaster versions:

No need to read the following paragraph. I just yap about Remake and Remaster terminologies and why Castlevania 4 isn't a Remake.

I never accepted Super Castlevania 4 as a Remake. To me "Remake" implies making the same game. Otherwise we have lot of candidates: https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Remakes/Reimaginings . This is more inline with a Reimagining like Final Fantasy 7 Remake or the recent Resident Evil Remakes. But not a Reboot that has nothing to do with prior games, like DOOM or Tomb Raider. I would rather count the Castlevania for Sharp X68000 as a proper Remake, which I only played the Remster of the Remake with Castlevania Chronicles on Playstation! And yes, I have some strong feelings about these categorizations. Just wanted share my opinion, no opinion is wrong or right.