Good for you. I don't live in your country and I don't have a gamespot to go to. We have ebgames but none of them exist around.
My point is we're talking about a game that sold tens of millions of copies and they're still readily available that a quick trip to your local store or amazon would easily give anyone seeking these games an option.
Think about music piracy. Right or wrong it went down when options like iTunes came out and offered an alternative. I just wish more developers had these options for their back catalogue and some more consumer friendly practises.
I mean we're not in 2007 anymore, MSFT is offering a way to access most of its library online.
Sony has a way to access their catalog on multiple devices but since they are heavily reliant on 3rd parties, it's complicated to get everything you want (I can tell you I'm throwing a party is squareEnix ever make Romancing Saga ps2 available without having to wip out my old ps2).
Nintendo is providing a way to access a significant part of their library for more than a decade now.
If there's a company that understand the value of their properties, it's certainly them.
People were laughing when Iwata talked about companies devaluing their properties and he was proven right when people couldn't pay Nintendo enough to access their greatest titles.
Truth of the matter, even pirates can't justify putting up a hosting service for Nintendo products if it doesn't include Nintendo's best and greatest titles that are still easily accessible legally.
It's even true for 3rd parties, Bethesda is making sure anyone can play Skyrim on a literal toaster but the lesser known origin of that franchise? No is interested in providing that game and there is certainly not a big demand to get it as well.
It was also true for music and movies, you will see a million torrent to get the Avengers or the Beatles but you'll be damned if you can find a proper version of a Max Pécas or a long lost album from that one group that didn't light the charts in 77.
As it is access to the big things people love and want are already easily available.
Out of their entire library since the NES I'd argue that the only hole they have is GameCube where they haven't found a proper way to provide a satisfying way to access the games.
Since La Joconde (or as it's more recognizably known, the Mona Lisa) is a work in the public domain, anyone is free to make reproductions and derivatives of it. You can pick up prints of it starting at less than $20 on Amazon. If you want to make a point about needing to suck it up and deal with art being inaccessible, this was probably not a good piece for that point.
Very true, there's a lot of more recent work I could have used.
This one popped in my head for no reason.
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