Wonder if anyone notices the same thing, where a number of more recent games are very "familiar", similar to old classics?

I've been playing Mass Effect, and in a lot of ways it reminds me of Escape Velocity. I guess it's actually an inaccurate comparison because ME doesn't have much trade or any of that stuff, but otherwise it just reminds me of EV because of travelling to other planets, landing on them and looking at their info, stuff like that. Same with the "missions" and stuff.

I guess the similarity isn't huge, but a few things definitely reminded me of it.

Another game I noticed was Geometry Wars which hugely reminds me of Battle-Girl. Similar concept, not too original, but even aesthetics-wise the games have a similar "high tech" art direction.