Yeah, I can totally understand people who are into retro-gaming and don't have the means to play the older games easily.

Unless you plan to rent out warehouse space and drop a ton of money on a lot of different, older systems a la Classic Game Room there's no other way to play a lot of old games. Plus, keeping a lot of those older systems running can be difficult at best.

A lot of the studios that made those games don't even exist anymore, so buying a copy of the game is great if you simply want to own a physical copy of it, but it's not like the creators are getting any of that money.

Stealing brand new games that you can still buy copies of is one thing, but downloading a copy of 1942, or whatever, seems pretty harmless.