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* After its unfortunate initial performance in 1995, ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has never been re-released in America, not even on the VirtualConsole. Its Masterpiece demo in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', and its appearance in a Nintendo Direct press release regarding the WiiU virtual console (losing its position to - of all games - ''VideoGame/PunchOut Featuring Mr. Dream''), were even explicitly removed from international versions! Rumors abound as to why this is so, the most common ones involving legal issues over [[{{Sampling}} its music]], but nothing has ever been confirmed by Nintendo and there are plenty of arguments against those theories too. At any rate, it's actually pretty rare to find someone who actually played the game on a console rather than just emulating it. Being a very famous game that sells for anywhere between $80 and ''[[CrackIsCheaper $200]]'', it's an exemplary and significant example of this trope in action.
** Similarly, the sequel ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' hasn't ever been released internationally. As time passes, it's quickly slipping the same way as ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', with prices on it hiking ever further up.
** ''Earthbound'' has been marked as coming to the WiiU's Virtual Console, but so far in Japan only. No word on an American or European release yet.
*** [[http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/04/earthbound-on-virtual-console-coming/ Yeah, about that...]]
** On the subject of ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', the MikeTyson version has never been rereleased since Tyson's contract with Nintendo expired and was not renewed after he lost his championship title. Instead, the aforementioned version that replaces him with fictional champion Mr. Dream is the only version on every current system's VirtualConsole.

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* The 1990s HumongousEntertainment games have not been rereleased in any form, with the exception of ''Freddi Fish: Kelp Seed Mystery'', ''Pajama Sam: Don't Fear the Dark'', and ''Spy Fox in Dry Cereal'', which are all available on the Wii (after the rights were sold to Majesco), plus ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]'' and ''Backyard Soccer'', both available on RealArcade.
** ''Freddi Fish'', ''Pajama Sam'', and ''Spy Fox'' on the Wii are no longer available, because Majesco used [=ScummVM=] (without complying with its license, the GNU General Public license)[[hottip:more info:The GPL requires the source code of the specific version to be released if the software is released at all, which it was in this case, which means the exact source code of the Wii release would have had to be released, and the license, which allows users to do almost anything with the code, has some minor restrictions that require anyone with a copy to be able to do the same -- hence the violation on the Wii, since Nintendo's licensing agreement wouldn't allow release of the Wii port of [=ScummVM=] and the GPL does not permit releasing software licensed with it without releasing the entirety of the source code]] [[DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming and didn't bother fixing well-known errors in the rendering]].

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* The 1990s Creator/HumongousEntertainment games have started to become more common thanks to the efforts of Nimbus Games, but they still have quite a long way to go. For one, even though Nimbus is trying what they can to get the games back on sale, they're currently mobile only, which has made quite a few people irritated. They were in print for a very long time, but this strategy didn't exactly work so well when Atari refused to update the games for modern computers. Then there was also the {{Wii}} port incident, which got ScrewedByTheLawyers. [[hottip:more info:Majesco outsourced the Wii ports to Mistic Software, who used [=ScummVM=] without complying with its license, the GNU General Public license. The GPL requires the source code of the specific version to be released if the software is released at all, which it was in this case, which means the exact source code of the Wii release would have had to be released, and the license, which allows users to do almost anything with the code, has some minor restrictions that require anyone with a copy to be able to do the same -- hence the violation on the Wii, since Nintendo's licensing agreement wouldn't allow release of the Wii port of [=ScummVM=] and the GPL does not permit releasing software licensed with it without releasing the entirety of the source code]] Also, if you're a fan of the foreign dubs at all, just forget it -- many of them had limited print runs and are now impossible to find, with the crowner going to ''VideoGame/FreddiFish 5'' in the UK and Germany. It's rare enough in Germany, but the UK had a ''fifty copy print run''.

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