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87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation (gamehistory.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/games
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New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel like if piracy is making it available, it's not really not available.

Like, we're lamenting the loss of something that pirates have made absolutely certain we have great access to than any time in history. MASH fans in the 90s might have the DVDs, but they definitely didn't have a copy of AfterMASH or the RADAR pilot.

With sufficient stubbornness and knowing where to look you can find damn near any piece of media that you can recall.

Weird cartoon that ran for 6 episodes and was never syndicated? Guaranteed someone has it. HBO puppet special for kids that ran exactly once ever? Got it.

Piracy preserves what capitalism can't be bothered to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Piracy preserves what capitalism can't be bothered to."

Love that sentence, and I agree with your points that these pieces of media are available not truly "lost." I don't hold anything against studios/publishers not wanting to invest time to make niche ports/emulations available, especially when it won't make them money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just so long as they stop going after emulation software, and pirates hosting old games that are not being sold anymore then I'm fine with it. Otherwise, big publishing companies and I have a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reading your comment makes me see Nintendo(TM) fkashes.