Why Did They Stop Making Games Like This? - Retro Game Design Nostalgia
Text content
WHY DID THEY STOP MAKING GAMES LIKE THIS? TEMPLE/DUNGEON TOWN
Overview
A black-and-white illustration with bold uppercase text at the top reading 'WHY DID THEY STOP MAKING GAMES LIKE THIS?' Below the text is a diagram depicting a classic video game structure. On the left side, there is a tall, vertical stack of horizontal layers with the topmost layer labeled 'TEMPLE/DUNGEON'. To the right, a grid-like area features small cube-shaped blocks clustered together, labeled 'TOWN'. The contrast between the vertical, layered dungeon/temple structure and the horizontal, grid-based town layout visually represents a nostalgic longing for traditional video game design, where dungeons were often vertical and towns were horizontal grid systems.
Origin notes
The image was originally shared on the platform 9Gag with the original title 'Bring this back', indicating it is a user-created meme expressing nostalgia for retro video game design. It was likely created using basic digital illustration tools to depict a simplified diagram of classic game structure elements (temple/dungeon and town) to accompany the rhetorical question about the decline of such game designs.
