The destruction of all life due to a runaway process, e.g. paperclip maximizer or other such maligned goal seeking program

Sonic X-treme never released

Sonic on the Master System is higher resolution and runs better

Would this this work?

Recently I’ve been playing a lot of Sega Saturn games. The vast majority of which are literally 30 years old.

The hardware works. Needs no accounts. The disks work. The system doesn’t need to pair a disk drive.

I can play the games.

Something people ignore, is when a game is pulled from sale on a digital store, what happens when it has no physical release?

Are you just supposed to say oh well, guess I missed it? Guess I’ll never experience it and that’s…a fair idea to people?

Why should games be accepted to be so ephemeral? What if it released before you heard of it? Before you were even born? We don’t tolerate other forms of media being so anchored in time.

I watched Jupiter’s Darling, released in 1955 last week. Why don’t we expect games to be playable, archived and preserved this same way?

The mentality people have is wrong. Videogames are disposable to so many people - buy, consume, forget.

Why shouldn’t future generations get to experience them when they are purchased? Why can’t we have a system in place to guarantee perpetual access?

This is why I support piracy, because the system itself is so broken, so skewed to the publisher that the consumer is expected to, and often does accept the idea that it’s not meant to be perpetually accessible.

You hit the head on the nose

Fallout on the Horizon: New Zero Vegas

I saw the same video, and used the premise recently as an ice breaker, but it’s still very much a theory here as others are saying.

It’s worth exploring I suppose, but it seems unlikely.

It’s just an interesting and provocative thought.

This is mostly untrue

They’re not region free though

This is a fascinating concept

There are still code in a box games, I have one

I’m pretty sure we’re at the twilight of human civilization, and maybe all biological life, or at least most complex biological life.

Would prefer Morrowind tbh

This seems like the extremely obvious answer. Anything else is unlikely.

I thought the joke was ages maybe, but I couldn’t make it make sense

I don’t even really care about AI art so much as we’re just accelerating full retard into literal extinction event AGI at top speed with pretty much no regard for safety.

This is ending the human race now, in realtime and it’s pretty much too late to stop.

Yes, ironically with AI

This is so sad! I’ll never forget his film legacy.

Yes, several, not trolling even a little.

Panzer Dragoon Saga is incredible, so is Grandia for something big, long and epic.