eli5 How can PC games from literally 1998 run from the PCs of today but you can’t play older console games from the current consoles?

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why is “backwards incompatibility” a problem on consoles and not on pc when they’re basically just the same electronic parts (cpu, gpu, ram)

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How are you going to run a game on CD/DVD (or *gasp* floppy disks) on the average modern computer? Also, if you *have* a drive that can read the media, a large proportion of games from 1998 *won’t* work on your modern machine without *a lot* of tinkering, if it will work at all.

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