
Bonus Episode: Game Availability Study
Video Game History Hour
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The Role of Emulation in Commodore 64 Games
Right now there are only two ways to get Commodore 64 games and that is either you sign up for ant stream arcade, which licenses what I can tell seems to be the only commercially viable emulator. Or you buy one of those like standalone mini consoles called like the mini C64 or something. And that's it because individual developers can't, you know, license emulators to release their game. The ownership of games is divided between companies in ways that can't really agree on. But then also it comes down to rights issues, you know,. There's licensed tie in games that can't get re-released because the license expired.
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