| Zkuq said: What use is preservation if you can't experience the preserved experience? Games are meant to be experienced, and small inaccuracies don't take away from the experience. Horrible performance however does. As far as I'm concerned, physical storage media isn't important either in preservation because games are essentially just software. I'm not saying physical things shouldn't be preserved too, but that's extremely unpractical for many so preserving them is probably best left to museums and such. One point of preservation, to me, is to let people experience old stuff themselves, and considering how easy preserving software is compared to preserving hardware, I'd say the current situation is pretty much fine. |
I'd say that the physical aspects should be preserved digitally to, for example I think that there should be scans of the cover, the back, the disc and even the manual in order to fully preserve the game, because those are part of the history as well.
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