“Most of the world’s video games from close to 50 years of history are effectively, legally dead. A Video Games History Foundation study found you can’t buy nearly 90% of games from before 2010. Preservationists have been looking for ways to allow people to legally access gaming history, but the U.S. Copyright Office dealt them a heavy blow Friday. Feds declared that you or any researcher has no right to access old games under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.”

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    5 hours ago

    So weird because as a kid, I would rent these video games day 1 from the local library… free of charge.

    What is the issue now that they are retro. Shame.

    Thankful to have all mine… back… up… and running.