Right, here's an obscure one.
Video and PC games that people refer to as though they're the first of their kind, when actually they were directly and heavily influenced by a previous game.

Example: "Doom was the first of its kind, the true progenitor of the FPS genre." Fuck you, you cunting spazzbucket! Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS, and Doom was a near-exact clone apart from the fucking graphical theme! It just happened to be slightly more popular! Not even LOTS more!

Then there's Command & Conquer. Not only did Dune 2 do it first, but it was a Hell of a lot more entertaining, and actually innovative! Even the C&C sequels are just repetitive clones, whereas Dune 2 - and the aforementioned Wolfenstein - were genuinely groundbreaking!

And then we have Prince of Persia. The original game was called "Prince of Persia", and was fucking fantastic. A true marvel of gameplay and design, with animation that looked as though Don Bluth could have made it, and all in about 1992 as well. After a couple of less important sequels the console version comes out years later, with a colon in the title but no number. Fair enough. Until the sequel to that, which they call . . . Prince of Persia 2.

What the fuck? Can these people not count? Are they so ignorant as to not realise it's the fifth in the series, or are they just so contemptuous of either PC games or older games in general that they're being utterly and blatantly revisionist about their history? What's worse is that all the obsessive, baseball-cap-wearing, LOL-using kiddies who only bother with consoles aren't even going to know about the originals (except perhaps by unlocking the first one when they complete the console version), and if they do, their opinions of what were groundbreaking games with design that still holds up today are going to be forever coloured by this weird and downright disrespectful retconning! AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

I care about this more than I should.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sat 3 May 2008, 1:42, 6 replies)

hmm
I read about this and although doom wasn;t the first kind of Fps it did it with a bit more finesse than wolfenstien did, and relesed sequels , it took wolfenstien near 8 years to give it a another go.
I agree about dune 2 completely although in the games industry anything based on a book or anythings that even midly based on anything always gets looked down upon as being unorginal.

And the less said about the modern prince of Persia sequels the better.
(shake'n'bake Tally Ho, Biatch!, Sat 3 May 2008, 2:15, closed)

Completly agree
I have fond memories of Prince of Persia, and Wolfenstein 3D. The whole of my family were addicted to them.. I remember the last level vividly "Gutentag" then the boss lets rip with the duel chain guns..

And i also remember the funny grunting noise from Prince of Persia when you repetedly ran him into a wall...
( Jorvic, Sat 3 May 2008, 3:18, closed)

Dune 2
was written by the same studios that make the Command & Conquer series, that being Westwood. So they are just "developing" the original idea they had all those years ago FYI.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sat 3 May 2008, 6:32, closed)

Fair enough,
but really it's the ignorant fanboys who treat C&C as though it's the original and bestest there is of everything because they can't notice anything that's slightly older or that isn't marketed to fuck that piss me off.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sat 3 May 2008, 17:42, closed)

Regardless of your anger,
take solace in the fact (I'm assuming, going off username) you like Squirrel Nut Zippers and thus join an elite band of cool kids of which I am a member :)
(bacontrout got ska, Sun 4 May 2008, 14:25, closed)

Ha ha, yes.
And swing revival in general.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sun 4 May 2008, 19:13, closed)