Much as I hate to say it, Alrik is right about the definition of classic in this case.
Not that I hate to agree with Alrik normally, I hasten to add, but in this case he has written a most unpalatable truth.
The sad fact is that we role players should have actively defended what RPGs are in the beginning, and actively protested when computer game manufacturers turned out stuff with zero actual role playing (Diablo, the Final Fantasy games, etc) and called them RPGs when they blatantly are not.
But we didn't. And so people who mistook the system for the game have been allowed to call pretty much anything an RPG until the term has almost no meaning anymore.
Darn it...
