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Finally, with the severe decline of arcades outside of Japan discouraging developers from exporting their games and the advent of mechanisms that shut out arcade importers, such as arcade digital distribution platforms such as NESiCAxLive, Japanese arcade developers limiting their games to lease-only rather than outright selling the machines, and always-online DRM (often requiring the arcade to register their machines and pay subscription fees), it is becoming harder if not outright impossible for arcade fans to legally acquire and play games through any means even if they have the money, leaving travelling to Japan the only option. Even then you'll still need a way of playing them, whether it be a cabinet (easily available but still expensive) or a 'supergun' device to bypass the need for a cabinet. The only other legal option in these cases is to acquire the original hardware, which is costly and not designed for consumer purchase 100 USD for a board is considered cheap.

While a good fraction of them have had ports, some ports range anywhere from being good but not one-to-one to outright Porting Disasters. A lot of arcade games fall under this.

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The basic premise of the concept is this trope: Software that is 'abandoned' (unsupported and undistributed by the right-owners, if who owns the rights is even known) isn't morally wrong to put up for download (the modern day equivalent of circulating the tapes, so to speak).

While Abandonware technically is a general software term, the vast majority of cases where people actually care are video games, since nobody is going to download an obsolete version of Microsoft Word when an open-source client like LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice can be legally downloaded and redistributed (e.g., over BitTorrent) at no charge.

Whenever a publisher or developer goes out of business, its games get caught in copyright limbo unless someone acquires the rights.

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