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The Game Availability Study published in partnership by the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network found that 87% of video games released in the US before 2010[…]simply aren’t in print anymore.
This has gotten me thinking about legal deposit requirements, such as those that have existed for centuries in certain countries where published works must have a copy submitted to a national library for conservation purposes. Does anyone know if there are initiatives like this for video games? How are they going?
I mean emulation has replicated a ton of them. I don’t think that’s how the article wanted them preserved, but people are doing the work
And that’s why I am very grateful to the emulation community (except for currently sold games / machines like the Switch obviously). Unfortunately, it is illegal at some point, but I believe it is the only way to save as much video game as possible for the next generations.
I would donate money to a video game museum that housed a copy of every single game and console in existence.
The games and consoles are for looking at while there are playing stations with emulators to sample the games. The game art alone would make it worth it.
I always wanted to see a visual timeline of all game consoles lined up in a row to see evolution of design over the years. From disks to carts to cds.
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Legally, it does. For it to be legal, you need to show proof of ownership for the game. At its base, you can say that companies like Nintendo are trying their best to remove access to games through the work of their legal department.
But i think most these games that have been lost to history or are in danger of it are games we don’t care much for anymore. Like old Atari games and the many thousands that have filled the libraries of the different game consoles over the past 40 years.
And even with emulation, that ROM still has to be saved somehow. Any medium we store data on is volatile. So, even with emulation, there’s still a risk of loss and then already we’ve lost the copy of a game and not the original. This also means, the original medium with its artwork would be gone.
Time to make a video game library, i suppose.
