I borrowed it from a friend
He's got alot of boxes, so I grabbed all I could to scan
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That Leaves:
-Game gear
-Amiga
-Commodore
-Spectrum
-Master System
-Genesis
-Wonderswan
-Neo Geo
-Neo Geo Pocket
-Turbo Graphix
-Turbo Graphix 16
There's most likely more...
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That's quite a list, actually. Okies. How many of these systems are dead and buried? I.e. which of these systems can you
not buy today? I think Commodore 64 is dead, isn't it?
The problem is the following, you see. If the system is still sold somewhere (anywhere), then all the games for that particular system would be illegal to host on the net. Well, more illegal than games for a dead system (It's still copyright theft).
Why?
Quite simple really. Let's take an example with the aforementioned Indiana Jones game for Amiga, and assume that the game is no longer sold, but that the Amiga is.
I am a gamer, and I would like to play that particular Amiga game. I do not own an Amiga, but I know that Abandonia hosts Amiga ROMs for me to freely download. So I head over there and download it and a suitable emulator for my computer. By doing that I am harming the sales of the Amiga system. What I should have done would be to buy the system from the store that is selling it, and then gone on Ebay or simillar and bought a used copy of the game.
By playing games on a system it was not designed for, you are seriously harming the sales for that system - why buy consoles, if you can play all the games on just one system?
For that simple reason we can not host ROMs for active systems.