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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
There'd be a booming market in older video games--bugs and all--adapted to play on new machines. It's just that it's not believed to be lucrative enough for the game companies to put resources in that direction, but they're too paranoid about losing money to license them out cheaply. (Or, as is often the case, the original company has vanished, and the games are now copyright orphans.)
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A bit OT, but WiiWare does this, successfully selling older Nintendo games to play on the Wii using an emulator. What has made that practical, I think, is a large market and a slick purchase/download process.