@Anguspuss There are also games who nobody knows who the rights actually belong to due to the original company being sold off or taken over. There are others who will have gone bankrupt and nobody has bought the rights to the games that the studio made. Devs who only made one or two games for a system before disbanding and moving on to another line of work. There are many reason why a lot of old games wouldn't be able to be sold commercially anymore.
@Onion
Nah, it was an edutainment game. It was split into three parts (if I remember correctly), the first part involved solving puzzles so you could get parts of your bike back (frame, wheels etc.). The second and/or third part involved a castle. This was 20 or so years ago, so it's all rather vague. But thanks for trying.
@Onion I honestly couldn't tell you the name of the game, it was referred to as "Bike," among us kids, but I don't know if that was the actual name of the game or not. I've searched for it online, but no luck.
@Anguspuss Doesn't quite work that easily, the reason why we won't see a legit VC goldeneye is because of all the different ownerships involved. Rare made the game, Nintendo own the system, the actors own their likeness, the bond franchise is owned by the studios. You wouldn't be able to get all those people to co-operate. Well, co-operate cheaply anyway.
@AlwaysGreener The car should be in a museum, but the problem with that analogy is that the car disappears from one person's ownership, now if you had some sort of cloning machine which could make an exact copy of the car, then I think the moral issue disappears.
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Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Anguspuss
There are also games who nobody knows who the rights actually belong to due to the original company being sold off or taken over. There are others who will have gone bankrupt and nobody has bought the rights to the games that the studio made. Devs who only made one or two games for a system before disbanding and moving on to another line of work. There are many reason why a lot of old games wouldn't be able to be sold commercially anymore.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Onion
Nah, it was an edutainment game. It was split into three parts (if I remember correctly), the first part involved solving puzzles so you could get parts of your bike back (frame, wheels etc.). The second and/or third part involved a castle. This was 20 or so years ago, so it's all rather vague. But thanks for trying.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Onion
I honestly couldn't tell you the name of the game, it was referred to as "Bike," among us kids, but I don't know if that was the actual name of the game or not. I've searched for it online, but no luck.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Onion
There's one BBC Micro game from my childhood which I believe to be lost forever. If preserving games is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@Anguspuss
Doesn't quite work that easily, the reason why we won't see a legit VC goldeneye is because of all the different ownerships involved. Rare made the game, Nintendo own the system, the actors own their likeness, the bond franchise is owned by the studios. You wouldn't be able to get all those people to co-operate. Well, co-operate cheaply anyway.
Re: Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles
@AlwaysGreener
The car should be in a museum, but the problem with that analogy is that the car disappears from one person's ownership, now if you had some sort of cloning machine which could make an exact copy of the car, then I think the moral issue disappears.