[game_preservation] Another article on how all our games are dying

[Mike Melanson]

On 07/29/2010 08:59 AM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>   It references the Planets and Emulation work done in Europe;

> http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/147

>

> I need to give that paper a read. This stuff is of course a lot more

> obvious to all of us :)


I found this awesome comment in the ensuing Slashdot thread:

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1735616&cid=33059982

"The problem as I see it is that we, now, don't know what will be valued 
in the future. Whatever clown decided to make the same rock with 
Hieroglyphs, demotic, and greek would have no idea that at the time he 
was creating one of the most important archiological artifacts ever.

"In short, preserve it now, let future generations decide what to study 
and what to ignore."

Makes me feel better about finding and archiving impossibly obscure 
games. :)

-- 
     -Mike Melanson