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The goons at Something Awful have come up with a great theme for today's Comedy Goldmine which was relevant to our interests. Forum member Experto Crede pitched the idea of photoshopping classic video games to ruin the game or to add in modern gaming "innovations" which actually suck.
How would you like to play Pac-Man in a mode where all the ghosts are that erratic orange slowpoke, Clyde? Would you like your games interrupted by constant pop-ups about sharing your progress on Facebook? How about being forced into constant microtransactions to build your character's stats before you've even played the game long enough to know if it's worth paying to play?
All of these modern changes to games we used to like are available at Something Awful. We've posted our favorite photoshops from the set below.

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Oh man Streets of Rage FOR LIFE! Now I need to find all my Blaze fan fiction.
Everdraed is basically the best at these things.
Cool thing about Everdraed’s gifs is that typically, if you download it and then change the file extension to .mp3, you get an accompanying audio track.
The paperboy and the NBA Jam ones made me laugh, the Portal 2 one made me cringe.
Somewhere right now, a VP at Namco Bandai is commanding the developers they have in a sweatshop in China to use some of these “ingenous” ideas for their next greatest hits collection.
The Streets Of Rage one seems more like a shareware game.
SHHHHH! They’re calling it “free-to-play” now! Stop using the old term or you’ll ruin the whole thing!