That's a lot of lost history for most gamers.
, used a randomised sample of 1,500 games released before 2010,"which is roughly the year when digital game distribution started to take off." They also collected further, more targeted data on different consoles, or"ecosystems":"Abandoned","Neglected", and"Active"—giving the examples of the Commodore 64, the Game Boy, and the PS2 respectively. In total, over 4,000 games were included in the study.
The study mentions"libraries and archives can digitally preserve, but not digitally share video games, and can provide on-premises access only," which is an important distinction. You can still technicallymany of the games the study states are"endangered", it's just impossible if you don't live close to an archive.
This comes in the environment of increasingly complex arguments over copyright laws and game preservation, in a medium where the platforms themselves vanish along with their titles.the US Copyright Office's remote-access exemptions for archived works"explicitly leave out video games." Even video game researchers and historians have to travel just to play games that are otherwise impossible to buy.
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