These are the classic video games you can no longer play (Spoiler: It's most of them)
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These are the classic video games you can no longer play (Spoiler: It's most of them)

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These are the classic video games you can no longer play Enlarge this image toggle caption David McNew/Getty Images David McNew/Getty Images When The Sims came out back in the year 2000, it changed the gaming landscape. That fate, sadly, isn't an anomaly — most classic video games can't be played on today's hardware. Salvador calls that period the "silent film" era of video games, when designers established the medium's basic grammar. "I worry about the long-term future of video games going to be if we have to sort of rely entirely on the fan community for this kind of documentation."

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