Can I politely ask that people start using words like "reimagined", "rewrote", "made a demake" for these things, and not "ported"? Words have definitions. We live in a society.https://twitter.com/RAMOKROMOK/status/1316067797198352386 …
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To that end, things like this VIC-20 "port" or the TI calculator "port" of Doom fall flat. They lack many of the engine features that ostensibly made Doom what it is. They're simple raycasting engines, functionally more akin to Wolfenstein 3D.
What bothers me is that they're impressive accomplishments in their own right, but they are using the name of another game with far more widespread recognition in order to garner more attention for something which is broadly unrelated. It cheapens it, in a way.