Well...this is sorta a cyclical thing. There are some seriously oooollldd games from the early 90s that could still hold up well (not graphically, obviously, but gameplay wise)...but they were meant to be accessed via the DOS interface off of the old magnetic floppy disks, and the modern 64-bit operating systems don't really play nice with anything that old, even with some of the workarounds that are available. And the companies that made those games...don't even really exist any more, most of them, so that's a factor to consider with abandonware, too. What happens to a popular online game when the company that made it goes under?