Well, of course there's plenty more factors you can consider, but that kind of fits into what I said though, doesn't it? The classic games had the two dimensional worlds. The Playstation ones had three dimensional characters on two dimensional backdrops that resembled three dimensional gaming, and the rest had three dimensional worlds.
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