Almost 90 percent of classic games are ‘critically endangered,’ say archivists

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• Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is impossibly hard to play games released before 2010.

  *legally

  It's incredibly easy to play games released before 2010

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  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Piracy is a public service, and situations like this only make it harder to deny.

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• jonion@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Copyleft should be mandatory once a game passes 20 years old.

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• SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thank God PC gaming has been shockingly good in this respect.

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• animist@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No idea why those who own the IP don’t just either open source them or release them into the public domain

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  • MattTheProgrammer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because licensing is complicated and likely they are not the sole owners of all technology involved in doing so and there's no perceived benefit for them to do that unless they feel like they can make money on it somehow.

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    • Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean selling emulators or something is a way to make money.
      I'd buy a gameboy repo in a heart beat. Or, maybe something with an SD card/chip that ran the roms; and if it came from nintendo, chances are pretty solid it'd acutally work 90% of the time.

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  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because they want to keep it till the very last moment just in case they can make money with a remake or something, even if it crumbles to dust and gets lost forever. What I really want to ask is why does the law enable this?

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    • Unaware7013@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because copyright makes rights holders lots of money, money they use to bribe politicians to keep extending copyright.

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  • realcaseyrollins ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, because they don't gain anything by that.

    What surprises me is that they don't make their own official emulators and sell those tho
• bedrooms@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was amused to see Lemmings is now on mobile. Never imagined I'd be able to play it again after like 30 years maybe? I knew there was a browser port, but yeah.

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