1904

Gameplay of both
There are two playable characters in the original mod, those being Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and Alton B. Parker, the Chief Judge of New York Court Appeals. The mod features two running mates for T. Roosevelt, Charles W. Fairbanks, the canonical running mate and the then Senator from Indiana and William Howard Taft, the then United States Secretary of War. While Parker gets one canonical running mate, former West Virginia Senator Henry G. Davis. In the remade version of the mod, there is only one playable character, that being Alton B. Parker. The reason given by one the the creators of the remake, u/Verbluffen, is that Parker was technically the only candidate that actually campaigned in the election, as T. Roosevelt didn't really start participating in the practice until the chaotic election of 1912, which also happens to have its own mod, although only two of the four candidates are actually playable, those being Woodrow Wilson and T. Roosevelt. The remake also has only one running mate just like the original version, that being the already mentioned former West Virginia Senator Henry G. Davis. U/Verbluffen has stated that he only included Davis as a running mate because no other Democrat wanted at all to be Parker's running mate than him.

Creations
1904 was announced around October 2022, and it later got two extra development updates, one posted on Halloween to showcase the extra Taft running mate option and the other posted in November 2022, to showcase a final version rough draft of the mod. The remake was announced in April 2023 and unlike the original version, it got no Reddit development updates.

Mod launches
1904 was released on Thanksgiving 2022. It garnered over 50 upvotes, with then mixed support. However, it wouldn't be added to the loader until quite a while after probably due to the mod's quality upon release. The remade version would be released in May 2023. It garnered over 120 upvotes, with unanimous support, much unlike the original version. It was added to the loader soon after and for a short time was colored on it, but it was later changed back to being uncolored. The reasons for it are unknown, but probably to avoid even more confusion with the original, since both of them are already on the mod loader.

Receptions and legacies
At first, the mod was received well, with people saying that they enjoyed it, but as they played the entire mod and saw the writing and low effort of it, those opinions changed. With people complaining about how most of the mod's code two and margins are reused from u/yupperdoo97's 1900 mod, which was a mod that would also get the remake treatment much later. People also cited how the writing was overly short at best. With people citing the "A figure from West Virginia who's willing to be on your ticket". the mod's bio for former West Virginia Senator Henry G. Davis as the pinnacle of the original mod's writing. The remade version on the other hand, was received very well by most people, who saw it as having much more actual research and better writing than the original. People also loved how you could technically "play" as New York Representative William Randolph Hearst in some of the custom endings for it.

It, along with 1988 Gary Hart, 1988 Iran-Contra, 1948IW, and Chris Chan 2012 would join the leagues of a sub-genre known without major dispute as "bad mods". Mods that many people find mediocre at best and just plain awful at worst. Mods that people tend to make jokes about their worst parts like in 1904 original's case the already mentioned "A figure from West Virginia who's willing to be on your ticket". bio. The remade version's case, however, is completely different. It, along with 1996 and 1984 would join the leagues of a sub-genre known as "good remakes of mods". Mods that people feel are much better versions of their original counterparts that can suffice well as good mods of their own.