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# How acceptable, modern gaming conventions would have ruined classics #1
Downloadable content.

(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:40, archived)
# How acceptable, modern gaming conventions would have ruined classics #2
Quick Time Events
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:41, archived)
# ha!
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:46, archived)
# I like this.
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:41, archived)
# How acceptable, modern gaming conventions would have ruined classics #3
Brown.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:42, archived)
# Is this the Game Boy version?
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:44, archived)
# A while back, I was leafing through a video games mag.
I turned from one double page spread to another and it took me a while to realise I was looking at two different games.
Both "brown shooters". They looked near identical.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:46, archived)
# I don't like the font
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:47, archived)
# Good news.
A new font is now purchasable via sonic DLC.
Please put all your details in to our ready hacked Sonic store.
(waxdart hello., Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:03, archived)
# \o/
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:05, archived)
# Phew
(I helped save b3ta! Frogbeat, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:29, archived)
# :)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 8:46, archived)
# How acceptable, modern gaming conventions would have ruined classics #4
Microtransactions.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:04, archived)
# haha
King would rename it Brick Saga and claim it is a brand new game.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:41, archived)
# This is basically the last version of SimCity
(I helped save b3ta! ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 16:24, archived)
# on the plus side it's easier to store the addon packs than it used to be
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:05, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:10, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! Frogbeat, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:28, archived)
# Haha all great
(I helped save b3ta! Frogbeat, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:29, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 10:57, archived)
# #27 - MMO
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 9:50, archived)
# Needs more racial slurs and spawn-killing.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 10:01, archived)
# or maybe just
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 10:05, archived)
# In all seriousness though...
It's less prevalent now, but from 5-10 years back, the "take a successful single-player game and rather than invest time and thought in making a quality sequel just bang it on a crappy multiplayer platform with no thought to story or ambience" approach really got on my wick.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 10:10, archived)
# That actually existed, didn't it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbxH26kysQ

(Well, JSW rather than Manic Miner)
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 10:51, archived)
# By "classics", I thought you meant Virgil or Ovid or Austen or Flaubert
but then I remembered what site this is.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 11:47, archived)
# I'm still trying to punch the monkey**
**not a euphamism
(Vladimir Gluten, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 12:04, archived)
# Hardware would have been fun
(waxdart hello., Mon 6 Jul 2015, 13:50, archived)
# :)
(I helped save b3ta! Frogbeat, Mon 6 Jul 2015, 15:05, archived)