Can you imagine the ego stroking it must be to have an entire genre named after your work?
They probably could have had a Cass against the first game to market itself as such, but I think once the terminology gets utilized as a “common term”, you can’t do anything. It’s why Nintendo in the 80s and 90s was so fucking adamant on pushing parents away from calling any and every home game console a Nintendo
Can you imagine the ego stroking it must be to have an entire genre named after your work?
They probably could have had a Cass against the first game to market itself as such, but I think once the terminology gets utilized as a “common term”, you can’t do anything. It’s why Nintendo in the 80s and 90s was so fucking adamant on pushing parents away from calling any and every home game console a Nintendo
Imagine what the developers of Rogue must feel. Games in that vein are still called Rogue-likes 43 years later