WTF is a Classic Game?

John Nelson Rose
7 min readJul 6, 2019

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What makes a game “classic?” I think about this a lot as I’m playing games, hitting them with my own litmus tests to determine their worth in the grand scheme. As game makers we do this because we want to build something great. We know classic is good, but what exactly is it?

There are hundreds of definitions out there for the label of classic, but they invariably point to the concept of timelessness. A classic idea…

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