Almost 90 percent of classic games are ‘critically endangered,’ say archivists

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Almost 90 percent of classic games are “critically endangered,” say archivists

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/14/23792586/classic-game-preservation-video-game-history-foundation-esa

“The commercial market alone can’t solve this.”

Almost 90 percent of classic games are “critically endangered,” say archivists

Which is strange because I find older games easier to play as they don’t require any sort of internet connection or mandatory patches. The entire complete and finished game is on the disc/cartridge.

It’s modern games (post 2010) that will become the problem in future as more and more of them only contain a small portion of the game on the disc and the rest must be downloaded.