
Discussion
Buy the physical copy
Old games depending on their activation method could still work or not and depends if they have drm. Second find the patches speaking of games on pc or it won't launch xy game Halo 2 and Win10 nightmare to install in Wine is borked. Third Gog is or was the legal drm-free way better an updated abandonware
I was talking more about consoles (excluding Xbox). Physical copy for PC was killed years ago with online activation code on MS Live, I have one of this paper weight here. Very old game will work fine with older OS though
Physical ones are harder to find and more scarce. Piracy help to democratize the digital access