10 video game endings that messed us up as kids. No real spoilers... just vague summaries.
10. Metal Gear Solid 2 - Gets deep with technology and politics.
9. Knights of the Old Republic - You find out your ... purpose.
8. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Relive the timeline...
7. Grand Theft Auto 4 - No happy ending for you.
6. Fallout 1 - That thing you've been working toward? Screw you!
5. Conker's Bad Fur Day - Self-aware, third-wall breaking craziness.
4. Silent Hill 2 - ... The dog ending. Just... yeah.
3. Dead Space - You've been misguided.
2. Shadow of the Colossus - WHAT A TWIST.
1. Metroid - Samus is a ... girl!?
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Copyrights are valid laws. You break them at your own risk.Sort of a big story in the classic gaming scene...
Emuparadise has removed all of their download links and Nintendo is quickly fixing the 3DS so you can no longer download games from their servers without a valid ticket.
Emuparadise was the go-to source for ROMs of old games, and Nintendo had them shut down.
In many cases, there's no reasonable method to play these games without emulating them anymore. Like lost artifacts.
Then there are 30+ year old games on "e-shops" like Nintendo being sold for $10-25. Even the Zelda games that were ported to Gamecube were literally just ripped roms running on a GCN N64 emulator.
Nintendo is tossing lawsuits around like candy at the major ROM sites, suing for damages of billions of dollars.
I guess the good thing is... these ROMs have a very small footprint... so finding a torrent with most old games isn't something that should take forever to download and archive.
Copyrights are valid laws. You break them at your own risk.
Nintendo has the right to profit from their property until such time as the copyrights expire, which is 95 years after publishing. Until that time if you want to play their games, you should pay for it.
I do without. I don't pirate any kind of content. I realize I seem to be in the vast minority in that regard though.And you're not wrong, but...
Say there's an old game you want to play. It's discontinued, obviously. The price to get it used is exorbitant, probably treated like a collector's item. The publisher isn't modernizing its release anywhere.
What other options do you have?
I do without. I don't pirate any kind of content. I realize I seem to be in the vast minority in that regard though.
That is different to me. You've already paid for the game. If you are doing it for your use, that should be fine. When you distribute it to others, that is when it becomes an issue.Another argument, aside from pirating roms, is the ability to back-up your game catalog/saves.
Those old cartridges and CDs aren't going to last forever. Many people use special utilities to rip them to a file so they can preserve them. Technically game companies don't like that and say it's against rules... but unless they give the users the ability to back up their games/saves, they don't have many options.
Thankfully, a lot of modern games do preserve that data digitally.