Quoted from flynnibus:Pin to pin adapters is trivial... and with 'on demand' manufacturing now (and growing) your dooms day scenarios are far less likely in the future than they've been in the past.
If the demand is there (and economically viable), when the interest/demand intersect... someone will put forth the effort. Be it hobbyist, or small business... necessity is the mother of invention.
Maybe in the future people will have to give up originality because the original concepts are no longer viable to manufacturer (TTL chips, or mirroring, etc).. but people aren't going to just abandon the games. The bigger the hobby gets... the better off we will be when the technology changes force adaptation.
Totally agree, things are getting easier to reproduce every day it seems. The keystone is "if there is demand". I can see that interest in a lot of these games will die off along with the people who loved them, but so be it, that is the way of the world. 
