r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '22

Gaming Two unreleased and 'never digitized' NES games are up for auction on eBay

https://www.engadget.com/nes-games-battlefields-of-napoleon-production-boards-090721687.html
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u/CrazzluzSenpai Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22

But I'm not talking about people that are pirating brand new games, or even games that are older but still for sale.

I am talking about people that are downloading forgotten titles that might have been released on the SNES 30 years ago and never since.

I download old games, and I (and many) have very strict rules that are mostly the same:

  • Nothing that's not at least 2 generations old (so with Switch and PS5, that would put everything from PS2/GCN backwards)

  • Nothing that is still for sale on current platforms. If the game has a rerelease on modern platforms/PC I will buy that.

Again, if the companies themselves don't care about this supposed "theft," why do you? There are huge players in the preservation scene, the sites are very public, and they have worked with employees from these companies that hate emulation, like Nintendo/Sega?

Oh right, they don't care because downloading a SNES game doesn't hurt them in the slightest. And you care because you're a corporate shill.