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Publishers Have Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Retro Games

In a recent move against the archiving of video game history, publishers have finally come clean on why they dislike retro games so much.

After all, imagine not being able to go to a library and read the works of Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster or any other historical author. These mid-tier games are what kept the medium alive and allowed it to flourish, simply because there was a greater amount of functional variety to cater to people’s disparate tastes. Retro games are also part of this cultural ecosystem, and they are now off-limits and gatekept by clearly inept and greedy publishers.

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