>>718612292
I've been alive longer than you so no.
>Wizardry becomes mildly popular
Cue Might and Magic, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, SMT, Shining in the Darkness and what have you
>Ultima becomes mildly popular with 4
Cue Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and what have you up to this day with Larian still rehashing what Ultima 7 did back in the days
>Mario Bros becomes popular
Cue a literal explosion of mascot platformer for half the 80's well into the mid 00's, there's probably more dead mascot platformers characters like Alex Kidd than games in entire subgenres
>FF7 becomes very popular
Cue a decade of equally dogshit moviegames like Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, Skies of Arcadia and what have you
>Resident Evil becomes popular (after copying Alone in the Dark in the first place)
Cue Parasite Eve, Dino Crisis, Galerians, Countdown Vampires, Martian Gothic etc. and this becomes so incestuous fucking Alone in the Dark starts aping Resident Evil as well with the fourth game
>Street Fighter 2 becomes popular
Cue Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, Samsho, Mortal Kombat...
>Pokemon becomes popular
Cue Digimon, Monster Rancher, Jade Cocoon and what have you up to Palword
I can go on, but yeah, absolutely NOBODY was blindly fucking following trends and chasing the golden goose until Miyazaki shat out Dark Souls 1, right? No sir, the industry was totally full of creative geniuses before that chink came around...