I was browsing the 'net looking for something to do, and a came across a site that specializes in ROMs. They had roms for a LOT of old consoles, most of which i hadn't even heard of or played, like 'Acorn Electron", "Callus" (yes thats spelled right), and "Infocom Z-Machine". some of them were old PCs, too, so that would explain some of the names.

Anyhoo, on to the subject of this blog. The site had a LOT of GBA roms, and most of them were actually very recent: Pokemon ruby and sapphire, megaman, sonic advance, they were all there!

However, there were no gamecube games, even though GC game production stopped long before GBA production stopped.

Why is this? Why are the GBA games already considered abandonware (hence all the roms) even though many stores still sell them, and GC games aren't considered abandonware?