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From my perspective, it seems that companies like to shoehorn properties into one house system, many times modified, instead of creating a new system from scratch that could better emulate that particular genre or property. The d20 era was saturated in this thinking. Why create a new system when d20 could do a serviceable job and they could ride Third Edition for sales? But in my mind, a game like Top Secret SI better emulates the spy genre than Spycraft does. A game like Marvel Super Heroes better emulates comic books than Mutants & Masterminds. I might be nostalgic, but I think the 1980s had a varied amount of systems that emulated the properties well and actually sold in stores. I am wrong? What do you think the golden age was for systems emulating the properties?