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[HN] Study: 87% of classic video games are not legally available (gamehistory.org)

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

This is especially a problem for any game that had online connectivity, where the servers are no longer up, and do not have a way of self hosting a server.

For offline games, one could theoretically sail the high seas and find video game archivers, such as No-Intro, Redump, eXoDOS, and Tru-Rip

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