We call them first-person shooters now. And I think they were usually called Doom-clones. But it makes sense that they'd use a word like that when a word for the genre hadn't really been codified by that point.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"Roguelike." <- 44 years on and we still don't have a real name for this genre that isn't just "first game of its type with 'like' at the end."

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Rogue-like is a notable exception. The difference is that it's an established term for a genre, whereas a single journalist saying something like "Theme Hospital-like" is not a genre.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

whereas a single journalist saying something like "Theme Hospital-like" is not a genre.

Exactly. Which is why your comments here do not make any sense at all; they're not saying it's a genre. They're saying these games are like the games of a long gone company of the past. There's no established way of saying that other than "Bullfrog-like."

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Is there really no other way to say that? Lol