The nostalgic in me is thrilled but the cynic in me views this as a cheap cash grab. Seems like a lot of these are overpriced. Fifteen - twenty dollars for a game that is twenty years old now is pricey, especially in digital form. That's almost a dollar for every year I didn't play it.Petromir said:There's still a moderate stream of new games to be fair.
A much stronger reason is they are seen as easy money, they are usually cheap to make and sell enough to make a tidy profit as they were so cheap to make. And with Backwards compatibility being much rarer these days there's extra reasons for publishers to do it. New games (even with an off the shelf engine) tend to cost much more, and often fail to make proportionally as much money.
Hell, if I were more computer savvy, I could blow the dust off all my old CD ROMs and just play all these on my computer. Most hardcore nerds never got rid of their old games in the hopes of one day making their own game room like we see in nerdy listicles. And by "most" I mean "me."