Odd ball comparisons

[masschamber]

Has any one else noticed that sometimes 2 different games that aren't really similar are compared for really no apparent reason, comparing say Eternal Champions and Killer Instinct would make sense there different games, but are both fighting games, I'm talking about the comparison of Super Metroid and Shinobi 3, I've seen it several times and there both excellent games, but there completely different, what posses someone to compare these game , I mean one's pure action the others exploration, anyone else notice strange comparisons that are made frequently

[Fellow Atari Man]

I never have understood a few of the weird Defender comparisons, like Defender with Cosmic Avenger: first off, with Defender, you have control over where you go; you don't on C. Avenger (it seems to me that C. Avenger is a little closer to Scramble than Defender is). Same goes with Defender with the Activision game Stampede; again, you can't go where you want (left and right, I mean) in Stampede!

 

I just think those two "comparisons" (which I use that term loosely) have always been strange.