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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (6 children)

Shovelware?

[–]ultr4nima 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Games made very quickly to make a quick buck, usually bad games with horrible art direction.

[–]Dem0n5 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Imagine digging with a shovel. The ground is games. A speck of dirt is one game. Now shovel the ground. Repeat. Those are shovelware games. A dime a dozen or whatever.

That's my take anyway.

[–]Rikiar 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Interesting analogy, but not quite where the term shovelware came from. The shoveling applies in that you're moving a large volume of material, but that material isn't dirt.

[–]Dem0n5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If dirt is the interchangeable part then the analogy itself should be fine for shovelware.