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I think we had this on the app store for the first 5 to 8 years before it got eaten by ads and pay-to-win.
by Swizec 6y ago
I think we had this on the app store for the first 5 to 8 years before it got eaten by ads and pay-to-win.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoAnd even then most of the great games from the early years of the app store are long gone either their developers never updated them to 64bit or stopped paying their yearly App Store licence and unlike Flash games where the executables and runtime could be saved [1] they're all gone for good now because of the locked down platform. [1] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
- ajayyy 6y agoGoogle Play has many sites that scrape and back it up. Even on iOS, apps can be backed up as ipa's and installed without jailbreak with something like alt store.
- Avamander 6y agoI doubt those last long enough to act as a meaningful archival solution. Piracy sites maybe, but the links rot really damn fast.