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Alucard188
07/10/23 11:20:34 AM
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https://twitter.com/GameHistoryOrg/status/1678419548326772737?t=Te7rMJDEcZhw9m8zsdvO-Q&s=19

87% of all classic video games are unavailable? Sounds like somebody is slacking. Get to work on those preservation skills, buckos.

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Makeveli_lives
07/10/23 11:22:03 AM
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Problem is servers have to be maintained indefinitely for games to be available forever and that just isnt happening. Especially now.

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Cheater87
07/10/23 11:22:54 AM
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Nintendo won't release most of their backlog.

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Foppe
07/10/23 11:23:26 AM
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87% seems high.

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Hayame_Zero
07/10/23 11:27:38 AM
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If this includes Flash and mobile games, that's a more believable number.

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TheSavageDragon
07/10/23 11:28:59 AM
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To those that don't read beyond the OP...the article straight up mentions "on the current marketplace". So that means legally obtainable. On the pirated games side of the internet, that number is more likely to be 3%.
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Questionmarktarius
07/10/23 11:29:42 AM
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For accessing nearly 9 in 10 classic games, there are few options: seek out and maintain vintage collectible games and hardware, travel across the country to visit a library, or piracy.
Looks like the pirates are doing this quite well already.
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Makeveli_lives
07/10/23 11:29:43 AM
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TheSavageDragon posted...
To those that don't read beyond the OP...the article straight up mentions "on the current marketplace". So that means legally obtainable. On the pirated games side of the internet, that number is more likely to be 3%.
We all assumed that

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Gwynevere
07/10/23 11:31:05 AM
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Just 13% of video game history is being represented in the current marketplace.

So this is just looking at what's currently available for purchase. They are definitely preserved somewhere

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TheSavageDragon
07/10/23 11:31:25 AM
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Makeveli_lives posted...
We all assumed that

You've been here long enough to know there's going to be a bunch that didn't.
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Foppe
07/10/23 11:32:23 AM
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Pirates had TotK long before retailers had it, so do they need to step up?

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ai123
07/10/23 11:56:42 AM
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They are using 'not commercially available' as their criterion.

There are likely tens of thousands of long forgotten single creator cassette tape games for things like the Spectrum and Commodore 64 that are no longer available. They would be in that number. Collectors will still have them.

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Foppe
07/10/23 12:27:24 PM
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The ExoDOS tries to collect and emulate every released DOS game.
They got over 7200 games... and they know that they are still lacking games.

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