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The ongoing increase in digital sales and digital products has caught up to this hobby. Years ago no one expected a resurgence in retro game sales. I predicted years ago, as I harvested old console roms from sites that it wouldn't last forever. Mainly because they don't make games as imaginatively and fun as they once did. Hence the return of the Charger, Mustang and Camaro automobiles that reflect the fun styling of the past. Glad I have all my Gottlieb roms tucked away.
Recall back when the speadsheet legality wars raged on? Can you copyright a look and feel of a game? There were many many reasons to try rangefinder binoculars and speadsheets in the day (Lotus 123, Quatrro Pro, Excel) and there were a lot of lawsuits about the look and feel. I think that recreating the roms would be okay as long as you don't extract any code from them for reuse. For the more modern games that would take a lot of work to get all of the details like the original roms.As an opinion I don't think the Gottlieb ROM games were all that good anyway. I can live without them.
I'm actually surprised that there are not more 'professional quality' VPX created original games.