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When publishers fail to release their old games, piracy steps up to the plate. Many old games cannot be played without special software only legally sold by publishers; what happens is that technology costs more than the revenue from released games. Using emulation, old game consoles can be run on modern hardware and used to bring nostalgia to their users. he problem lies in the games themselves. Let me give an example. One game I wanted to play is called Pokémon Red. This game came out on the Nintendo Game Boy in 1996. To legally play this game, I would have to buy a second-hand Game Boy (that works) and buy a second-hand game cartridge. This would run up to around $170. Instead of going through secondhand stores, you can pirate the game and use emulators to bring your nostalgia back.

The idea of preserving the past involves piracy collecting all the games of our past that provide some value, perhaps in nostalgia. Publishers are not going to give anyone the legal consent to have a collection this big. This leads its users to seek out alternative means to collect their games. The idea of keeping the past applies to all sorts of media, from movies long forgotten to software that no longer is in any use, having access to this concept brings value.