this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
723 points (99.3% liked)

RetroGaming

19530 readers
267 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Xylinna@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
gts@lemmy.world
723
[HN] Study: 87% of classic video games are not legally available (gamehistory.org)
submitted 1 year ago by aion@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
110 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/41704

[ comments | sourced from HackerNews ]

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

This kind of thing (and e-waste in general) is why I think we need radical laws about unsupported hardware in general.

Agreed. Out of market for over a 10 years? The game is made public and preserved in a government library that is available to the public as a service.