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We'll play that, eventually.

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87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games (gamehistory.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Piracy is not just available to the most diehard fans. It has never been so easy to just download a full ROM set to even your phone and play those games there. There are ROM+emu prepackaged bundles that don't even really look illegal.

On top of that, Titanic can be watched online, because it was a well known and influencial film. I can't watch a significant number of movies without dusting off my VCR, because they're unavailable digitally. I can't even pirate those things, because they aren't anywhere.