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This is why sites and services like Archive.org, MyAbandonWare and Myrient are absolutely vital, and why IP owners generally suck balls.
I've found this to be a pretty good resource for abandoned video games: https://www.myabandonware.com/
Emulation is a moral imperative.
Mobygames is the place for abandonware games.
I also remember people made a more-or-less complete archive of US Playstaion 1 games and distributed it via Usenet IIRC
That NES controller cable hurts.
Most classic video games are on my computer, so this study was wrong.
The study acknowledges that piracy is a way to play, but it isn’t legal. Basically we need an equivalent of the Library of Congress for video games, which is a reasonable request and conclusion. There is no way to play without ripping your own cartridges, and even that is still legally gray. See https://youtu.be/yj9Gk84jRiE
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/yj9Gk84jRiE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Still have a bag of old snes and n64 carts in my closet along with at least 1-2 snes and n64 consoles from my childhood.
I would go to garage sales with my mom as a kid every weekend and I still do sometimes looking for clueless people throwing out old consoles.
I still have all my old N64 carts too. Worried that the internal batteries are dead and my childhood saves long gone.
eh, just pirate the game. if it's not available anywhere then it probably wasn't worth having in the first place.
NCAA Football 14 fans making angry noises.
I agree with your first statement, but not the second one.