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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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Under current copyright law in the USA, we're talking about Super Mario Bros becoming public domain around 2075. A number of games will no doubt remain known, one way or another, much like some very old movies remain interesting and known, but a good portion will fall into the bin of "meh, who cares". I mean, a huge number of games are already almost entirely forgotten.
Some atari games are already there, and I literally had a module called "history of video games" at university. Those games came out in 1977 ish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q
Even Pong won't be public domain until 2067. Our copyright laws are horseshit.