found an unnamed txt on my desktop where i apparently wrote this

i m always thinking about the concept of a “clone” in videogame discussions, partly because i ve been walking around for about a decade thinking about the claim that there was a “flood of doom clones” after 1993, a phenomenon that, as far as i can tell, simply did not occur. break the concept of a game “clone” used to be incredibly literal. after pong came out, a hundred companies simply made…