This may or may not be true. The legalization of ROMs is a very complicated issue, in some cases. New Classics is the term used to describe new games written for old systems. That's right, people are still writing games for the ColecoVision, the Atari 2600, Gameboy and other systems. Well, usually, they don't.
Programmers write the game and release it as a ROM image.
They don't need to make a cartridge, since emulators can run their game. But they are interesting, some of them are pretty damn fun, and they're all legal. ROM Images page . To sum things up, most ROMs are technically illegal if you do not own the games in another form, while almost all emulators are completely legal. Contact us for more information on GameSpy Industries.