ShadowMan did a MFGG article

[DJ Yoshiman]

Interestingly, I too have been wanting to make a throwback fangame for quite some time now. I've mapped out all kinds of concepts for one, how far of a throwback would it go, how polished it should be by modern standards, etc. I've never quite hit a point in my developments that got very far, but I'd love to come back to the general idea and make something out of it. I just always figured no one would actually want to play something like that these days - an extremely niche game in an already niche community, you know? Not that I've ever cared about appealing to the masses.

I think if you created something in the vein of my What is This Thing? series, that would work out well. I made it to tell a story with a bunch of nostalgia, and I apparently had a few oldbies emotional about it (I recall some one saying they were on the verge of tears), but more surprisingly, I had a bunch of people who had no idea about any of this stuff interested, too.