Classic games will only sell if there is a market for them. Like the Mario games, they are "popular", so people would buy them if they were to be re-released. The same with Final Fantasy games. Square-Enix have re-released all of the older titles from FFI-FFVI [with the exception of FFIII ... dammit] that were originally released on the NES/SNES systems. But FF has a very large fan base, so by doing something like that, they aren't exactly going to lose any money on it.
But if many smaller games were to do this [this includes Oddworld], it probably wouldn't go very well. Only some loyal fans and people that are wondering about where the series originated from would purchase the re-releases. This would change if a particular title were to become immensely popular, then the company could re-release the game, but would need to do so not long after the popular title were released in order for the game to still have interest.
Abe Babe...
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