Will Classic Games Disappear Forever?

Knightfall writes "Who doesn't remember pumping tons of quarters into games like Joust and Tron? I shudder at the thought of what could have become of that large quantity of money. Well, it seems remembering those games may soon be all that is left. As companies are dropping support, but not property rights to our old favorites, many are in danger of vanishing forever. There are a few trying to prevent this though. An article in Wired tells a little about it. I for one still find these games, on a pure gameplay level, better than most anything out there currently. What can we do to prevent them from no longer being available?"

Comments

I digged...

[computerme]

Dig Dug!!

Mod Me Offtopic but-- Gameplay

[Valar]

See, I disagree with the argument a lot of people give that older games are superior to newer ones because 'the gameplay was better.' The tech at the time could only support very narrow concepts, like "eat the magic pills." Personally, that gets boring for me after awhile. Additionally, "bells and whistles" like better graphics and sound do make for better gameplay, IMHO, because it helps the player to suspend his or her disbelief. After all, it is pretty hard to think of yourself as a yellow circle, living in a maze, munching on all sorts of yummy powerups.

Whoa...

[ciroknight]

Never on slashdot have I ever seen so many identical responses.. going to run out of mod points just moddding them all -1, Redundant. Kinda weird...