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It's amazing to see optical media dying out to such a high degree. I was so excited when we got a CD-ROM drive in our home computer, when I was a kid. It opened up a lot of options for new games. Now, I have a collection of games on CD/DVD in a box, in the basement, which hasn't been opened in a decade, maybe two.
I just found my box of old games on cd / dvd. I threw them all out because they're unplayable on modern OSes. If I want to play Red Alert 2, I'll just pirate it or buy it on steam - someone already did the hard work of either rebuilding it or making a translation layer.
Retro gamers might have paid good money for some of those games.
I retrogame so I don't have to pay good money for games. Bring on the steam sales where I can get several months worth of games for $20 that will run on my old hardware.