I know there's articles and comments saying "why", so here's a couple opinions off the top of my head: - retro games cater to the demographic who would know wh

I know there's articles and comments saying "why", so here's a couple opinions off the top of my head: - retro games cater to the demographic who would know who Grimace is. - it makes news for novelty, if it was just another webgame there probably wouldn't be articles about it - the target platform has virtual machines for every modern OS and the web, so maximum reach. - the target platform has had decades of enthusiast development support, making IDEs and libraries. - the target platform is fixed. No fear of some instruction or device being deprecated during development or in the future. - the devs you could contract this out to would most likely have a depth of knowledge on the system. And any of their portfolio could be evaluated against others in a 1:1 fashion. - It has "just enough" capability to make a game that can entertain a broad audience for the time it needs to. - why not? just some fun.