I'll grant you that "perfect" is not a very useful term in this case. Perfect means many different things to different people. But, I'd absolutely disagree tha

I'll grant you that "perfect" is not a very useful term in this case. Perfect means many different things to different people. But, I'd absolutely disagree that nostalgia is the only thing that makes classic Doom fun. And, it's the crux of what I meant when I said "games don't age." There is a style of gameplay there which I believe is fun at any period in time. There's a lot I could say here, but I'd argue that if a game is only interesting when it's novel and it's cutting edge, then the core gameplay was never good to begin with. (for example, Chess is pretty archaic, but the idea that Chess was only fun back when it was really first popularized is similarly false.)