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87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games (gamehistory.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Commercial availability specifically. Thanks to archivers and the such, there are usually options to play most things. While I personally don't care about commercially buying most of these classics, I do find it odd how little ip owners seem to want to make some of these older titles available

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's such a weird attitude around release of old material. Why can't Disney+ show the star wars theatrical release? Why won't Nintendo sell their old titles? The only possible outcome is that people get what they want and give the company cash. It's bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Disney, at least back in the VHS, and (probably early) DVD days, would purposefully keep their titles in the "vault" and only release a handful of titles at a time for a limited time window.

What it did was create artificial scarcity, and when they put out an "anniversary edition" of Cinderella or whatever, they cashed in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I remember. It became a less reasonable structure with the advent of digital piracy though, and it's just nonsensical nowm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It wouldn't surprise me if Lucas didn't specify Disney agreeing to not releasing the theatrical cuts as a stipulation of the sale. He's been trying to bury those since the beginning. Last I heard he claimed they were too damaged to release.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't the theatrical cuts release with the first DVD sets well before the takeover? (Albeit yeah, that's 480p.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They did, they're a special feature on the 2008 Limited Edition dvd trilogy.

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