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I'm pretty sure most retro games should be downloadable as Abadonware unless you're one of those people who just feel a need to own the actual physical cartridge and play it in its original place.
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Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:53 pm
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Re: Retro Games
That's all fine and dandy, but the problem comes when people actually FORGET such a game exists.
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Re: Retro Games
The problem I found out about with Abandonware is most of it wasn't abandoned. Sites that put up "Abandonware" make up their own policies, and many base it loosely off a document one guy made a couple decades ago that was way overreaching with calling things abandonware and reflected the state of the PC industry at the time (when you couldn't play a game for one specific computer on a different model computer). A lot of titles actually are not abandoned either because they're still in distribution, or because the owners of the rights plan to do something with the series, and lately they sometimes do remakes of the old games. Some things get either abandoned, or opened sourced, or just re-distributed for free (like the first 2 elder scrolls games).
In any case, it's also cool to have the original hardware and cartridges for stuff, and often playing on the real thing does feel better than on an emulator, though some people don't care. It's also fun to collect and you sometimes grab things that increase drastically in value, so you can sell them for a profit later possibly.
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