I've lost so many favorite games to to developer and publisher abandonment. Most never came back. I've been a gamer since the early 90s. My first console was a hand-me-down Atari 2600, moved through the NES, SNES, Playstation and Nintendo 64, and then made the hop to PC for a very long time until the release of the Switch.<br><br>There are <b>tons</b> of games that I used to love that are now abandonware, or very nearly so. GoG is the only reason why Super Hero League of Hoboken is still around. Earth &amp; Beyond, the first and still the best spaceship MMO I've ever played, only survives due to EnBEmu, a private server project. Gazillionaire Deluxe, that quirky economic and trading simulation game? Gone. NES Shadowgate? Only survives as a ROM on emulation sites, along with Deja Vu, Uninvited, and most of the other Macventure titles. Maken Shao has been lost to history, owing partially to never being released outside Japan.<br><br>These games - good games, all of them, even if they're somewhat cumbersome and graphically primitive by today's standards - are either gone, or all but gone. It's only through the dedicated efforst of preservationists that any of these survive into the modern day. Yet, technically, those attempting to preserve these games are technically criminals," and sites like <a href=""http://lparchive.org/"">lparchive.org</a> come under fire time and time again for attempting to preserve evidence of games being played and enjoyed for posterity. And now you", UEG, have experienced what so many of us have - losing pieces of your childhood just because they're old and the companies that made them would rather you stop having them.