an analysis of historical video game availability shows that only 13% of classic video games are currently commercially available across consoles and time periods, and only 3% of games prior to 1985

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https://zenodo.org/record/7996492

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  • AshLassay@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah for every MGS4 there are hundreds of games on the level of E.T. There was a shit ton of crap flooding the market during the Atari era, because many publishers tried to crank out as many games as possible in a short time.

    • tuff_wizard@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Man i had E.T. On PlayStation. I was too young to realise how crap it was then but thinking back…