Alright. I don’t think people should steal games, but I do hate the thought of much of the culture being lost due to its commercial impotence. How else am I supposed to play the legendarily bad Atari 2600 molestation of Pac-Man? I think I’ll work up something longer on this eventually, but Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection got me thinking about it. I have all of the titles on that disc through emulators of some sort, but I am still happy to pay new money for the work that went into the games. Until we have more and more accessible archives of gaming culture, the responsibility for archivism falls on the individual. So nab some old roms and let’s get archiving. Give companies that make quality games in the current era their due reward. By the time these games are no longer commercially accessible your local library will probably have a copy.