[dwroberts]

This was an interesting story, but implying this is some unique insight irked me a little - perhaps because it is LLM-flavoured text that hypes it too much, and makes it sound like some kind of major breakthrough? Keeping the original game as-is, underneath a modern port 'layer', is a pretty popular and common way to update things, you can see it being done in a bunch of modern remasters.

[ryanjshaw]

As a dude with an enterprise development background it was my first thought. Rewrites are almost never the answer.