Michael Bassili

Lionhead’s movie studio management sim The Movies came out in 2005. Fifteen years later, the only way to buy The Movies is to find a physical copy on eBay, and the only way to play the game is to either dig up an old disc or to download it off websites like My Abandonware. Over the last decade or so, sites with abandonware—video games that have become impossible to buy or download commercially—have become increasingly popular as more games become defunct.