Experts say efforts to preserve gaming's rich history are failing, which threatens the industry's long-term health | From GamesIndustry.biz
Experts say efforts to preserve gaming's rich history are failing, which threatens the industry's long-term health | From GamesIndustry.biz
The article talks more about being able to legally play old games without downloading roms or anything, but that's a different topic from video game preservation. Video game preservation itself is doing just fine though. The vast majority of games are archived online and emulators provide super easy ways to play games that are impossible to find now.
Sure, companies should allow people to play older titles in easier ways, but to say "efforts to preserve gaming's rich history are failing" is just wrong.
Play Beyond Earth. You can’t.
Overwatch 1?
Also there is a world of difference between quality of emulation vs hardware.
It’s very noticeable with games from ps1 and forward.
FPGAs are great, but there is so much that just isn’t kept in an archival state, especially to be publicly accessible.
I do think there are some real concerns, including how institutions can maintain (and share) collections, and best practices being influenced by fear of getting attacked by Nintendo lawyers, etc.