Wordle and ClassicsJul 19, 2009 | no comments Popularity:  |
More Wordle madness.
What the word clouds show are very generic words like “space” or “super”, the number two (a game series is more likely to be two than three games long) and multiple word phrases which usually are popular game series, or games with many expansion packs. It is interesting that the generic words tend to be the same across 30 years — all generations of gamers seem to prefer dragons. Another point of interest is that a phrase from a 1980s game title is much less likely an established brand as it most likely is in the 1990s. Also, in the 1990s is became common that a game title has the release year attached to it, since EA et al started to churn out minor updates to their sports games as brand new releases.
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Here’s a superficial analysis on game titles. I have used