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Yeah. Nobody misses Atari shovelware, which was rife.

Nobody missed NES shovelware, either. There was a shitload of it. Basically any video game based on a popular movie or TV show was shovelware, and most such adaptations still are to this day. Nor does anybody miss Camerica. I doubt anybody is nostalgic for most of the crap Codemasters released.

Nor does anybody miss SNES or Sega Genesis/Mega Drive shovelware, let alone the flood of slop that resulted from the transition from 3.5" floppies to CD-ROM as the standard for software install media. And there is entirely too much shovelware (some of it utterly vile) on both Steam and the PlayStation Network. On the latter, for example, there is a title called Cop Officers: Police Simulator of NYPD City. Not to mention the Jumping $FOODSTUFF titles and the output of Kimulator’s Films.

Frankly, I would love to see a second videogame industry crash. Frankly, I’d love to see the tech industry as a whole crash and burn. Regardless of the fond memories I have of some games; the corporations that made them aren’t going to love me back, so there’s no sense wasting love on them.

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