• Buttons@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Video games were such a wild west back in the 80s and 90s that it’s often not clear who even owns the copyright anymore.

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      6 months ago

      There is a lot of abandonware and stuff where the companies just dissolved and ownership of any IP is questionable at best.

      But also I don’t think there’s a way to give Nintendo/Game Freak money to play Gen 1 Pokemon at the moment? There’s plenty of stuff like that. Sega and SquareEnix and some others have done a decent job of licensing/re-releasing some games. But there’s plenty out there that they ‘could’ release and seemingly have no interest.