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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Out of curiosity, what games take up so much space? I’m assuming modern ones.

You can easily downloaded a torrent of all games before the CD era and it’ll fit nicely in a few TB.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They have every available variant of every game, so there are anywhere between 2-10 copies of the same game for each console it was released on.

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