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The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever (www.gog.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it's not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

Off the top of my head I can think of:

  • Black&White
  • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
  • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
  • Pharaoh
  • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS "clone" exists)
  • Evolva
  • Syndicate

I could go on forever...