"Chazzzy;c-16307280" wrote:
I don’t think they will because they’d be bogged down with reports of this or that not working. And besides why offer us an old game for free/cheap when they can continue to push the new stuff for premium price? Doesn’t make sense from a financial standpoint.
There's actually a thriving market out there of companies offering old games--some of them decades old! Likewise, there's a company out there that legally sells digital versions (along with gaming manuals and other goodies included as part of the purchase) of a number of really old games (along with some newer ones) and work with the rights owners/publishers of those games to get them out there as they know there's a market out there for them and a number of players either nostalgic for them or who may prefer them for various reasons (or some who are just curious about them as they may be too young to have known about those games when they were first released). They also release them with the most up-to-date patches or sometimes bundle them with an emulator (for example, anything that would need to run off MS-DOS would fall under that category) and in a way that they should run on modern day systems.
Even if you check out Steam, they have a number of really old titles (or collections of them) that can be purchased including classics such as Pac-Man (which had not only been one of the most successful arcade games of all time, but became a huge part of pop culture in the 1980s due to its success--it was a phenomenon that was unlike anything anyone had ever seen before or really since (not even the Mario Bros could compare to it)).
Also, for certain defunct platforms out there, there was an emulator release where the programmer was able to obtain the rights to set up a repository old games that ran on those platforms for players to download and run/install through it on a modern-day Windows system through the emulator.
A number of companies out there have come to recognize that those old games still carry a great deal of value among players or would be players--some of whom, again, were not even born when those games were released. Some companies have also come to realize as well that there are also a number of similar games that have been released due to the demand for those old games and the recognition that there's both interest in them and potentially some money to possibly be made if they release it (even if it's through a third-party website).
While the graphics may seem simpler compared to most titles out there now, that's not necessarily a bad thing just as there's a great deal to be said for the actual game play for many of those old games--something that a number of people greatly appreciate along with just how re-playable many of those games are. It can sometimes be a case of where sometimes keeping it simple can be best--and where it may be preferred.
