13th July 2023, 5:39 AM
(13th July 2023, 5:35 AM)Weltall Wrote: I'd bet that you can go to Amazon right now and purchase perhaps a tiny fraction of all books that have ever been published.
Also, I don't care about legal availability, you can emulate just about anything, virtually every game ever made is out there, and companies can eat my butt if they don't like it.
You can go to the library of congress and read all of them, all we have historical records of since the library was formed at least. We have massive preservation efforts etched into law for books we don't have for games.
There's also one other grim reality. Emulation doesn't capture the full context of a game, like specific quirks of the controls and medium in general.
"Check the back of the box for her code Snake".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)