![]() It's a part, however big or small, of contemporary history - and it would be a shame for it to be lost forever. A Mario game has a certain timelessness about it, whereas this horrific piece of licensed tat takes you utterly back to the early '90s in ways that the Italian plumber never could. And yet a game like this says just as much about the time it was created in if not even more so than say, a Mario game would. ![]() ![]() Preservation becomes even more important when dealing with more delicate formats such as floppy discs, CD-ROM's and cassette tapes, not to mention any one of these that could include a long-lost beta or unreleased game.Īnother argument, often used by those who are thoroughly against emulation, is that a game like Dick Vitale's Awesome Baby College Hoops is hardly worth saving. And yet this was a game that was released and it's important to preserve it - because after all, the original carts are hardly going to last forever. But would a SNES Mini or anything like that include, just for example, Dick Vitale's "Awesome Baby" College Hoops? More to the point, is there any way that it could? Who's going to get the licensing for such a game, a sports title with the quite comical tie-in of a commentator famed for saying "Awesome Baby!" that wasn't good to begin with, and that no-one remembers? It's not exactly likely to happen. It's quite simple - your average miniature console is always going to feature the best games, the ones that everybody remembers. However, this particular crackdown is certainly a cause for concern for the ever growing amount of people who make consistent efforts to preserve the history of video games of all shapes and sizes - ROMs being a very important part of that. The miniature consoles are of course, an easy way to explain away all of this, along with still active services such as the Virtual Console - and yes, one can say that Nintendo is well within their rights to protect their IP's in such a manner and defend copyright. And so, it has proved true - the past couple of weeks have seen a Nintendo-led crackdown on various major ROM sites on the Internet, with Emuparadise, a popular European based page being the latest to withdraw their ROMs in response to legal pressure. With the spate of officially licensed miniature versions of consoles coming out over the past couple of years, one may have wondered if a headline such as this one was inevitable - especially when Nintendo got involved.
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