eli5 Why can’t old computer games run on new computers?

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Wouldn’t they be easier to run since computers are better now?

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They were written to run on old operating systems, so when you try to just move it from the old OS to new ones, unexpected things happen, and it breaks.

So you have to either emulate the old operating system and the game inside that, which isn’t perfect, or you restart and port the game to your new OS, which can take quite a bit of programming skill.

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