Video Game rights - what's the story?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by RaphaelinSTL

But yeah, you're right...they'll eventually find a way to try something out but it's also more of a pipe dream of mine that they would release the old games in such a fashion. Like CyberCubed mentioned, I'm in the notion that there is still a huge appetite for old school video games re-released and especially for a franchise that hit it out of the park back in the day like TMNT did for Konami.

I just don't get it. I don't get the appeal.

Since, you know, about the year 1998... the cost of an emulator? $0. Cost of ROM? $0. Cost of knockoff NES-like controller to plug into your computer? Maybe like $30. There you go, you can play them all, console perfect. This isn't exactly a secret.