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Chrkeller said:
Mnementh said:

Games are an art form and we usually care about preserving art. Museums exist with that goal. Now, not everyone cares about old art, but overall it is an important part of our cultural history.

We don't typically preserve every drawing ever made in art...  just the influential pieces....  I agree that preserving key influential games is cool, but as somebody else stated 95% of old games are meh and don't need to be treated as Starry Night.  And the influential games are well preserved and have been released many times over on many systems.  

Some very influential games have been lost over time, especially those from the 1980's and early 1990's. Also many MMOs are lost forever now, even some who ran for quite some time and were pretty influential.