Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Study finds around 87 percent of games are unplayable without resorting to piracy, scavenger hunts, or travelling to an archive | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The study by the Video Game History Foundation is a major step towards video game preservation. Quote A study by the Video Game History Foundation, a "non-profit organisation dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games", has found that most antique games are beyond the reach of fans unwilling to brandish the black flag on the digital high seas. "87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered," claims the study. "Just 13% of video game history is being represented in the current marketplace. In fact, no period of video game history defined in this study even cracked 20% representation." The Game Availability Study, Explained | Video Game History Foundation GAMEHISTORY.ORG Our new study shows the dire state of the classic game market. We broke down what that means. This is definitely sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 I wish we could have something like GoG for classic console games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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X-pert74 Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 The video game industry has by and large failed to keep its older games readily available. I really hope libraries are granted the exemptions they need to be able to let people access games in the same way that they can access books/music/etc. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 There should be some sort of duty of care requirement for companies and if they're unable or unwilling to keep their games available for a sufficiently long period of time, they're just free game for anyone to download. Destroy weird, bad IP hoarding of long dead franchises "just in case." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 10 minutes ago, Xbob42 said: There should be some sort of duty of care requirement for companies and if they're unable or unwilling to keep their games available for a sufficiently long period of time, they're just free game for anyone to download. Destroy weird, bad IP hoarding of long dead franchises "just in case." From a pro-business standpoint, if a company who did hold the rights to something like Suikoden, for example, could see that the franchise isn't nearly as dead as they thought, but there was a legal framework for people to download them, that could galvanize them into making more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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