an analysis of historical video game availability shows that only 13% of classic video games are currently commercially available across consoles and time periods, and only 3% of games prior to 1985

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https://zenodo.org/record/7996492

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  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You just named a bunch of games that have been released on other consoles/pc.

    What I’m referring to are all the garbage games released. Think licensed titles, and all the crap that led to the market crash in the 80’s.

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      1 year ago

      While you may be able to buy all these games at a secondhand shop I think this article is about official commercial availability. I am not paying some random 200 for Chibi Robo on GameCube because Nintendo never released it

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        1 year ago

        This is the part a lot of these corpo huggers are missing. I’m rarely willing to pay the full $60 for a game, let alone the hundreds some go for because of induced scarcity. Let’s be honest, there’s rarely a real reason for a game to not be available digitally even if they don’t want to keep print discs. GoG is made specifically for this kind of thing.