| firebush03 said: Physical media decays and is susceptible to dysfunction given their sensitive nature. |
The library of congress did a study and found that when stored at 50% humidity and 72F/22C, 70% of retro games will be playable after 100 years. Or in other words 3% of your oldschool game disks will become unusable every decade on average. Now, considering that I'm 8 years older than the oldest game disc I own, and I'll probably be dead or not care by 85, and my games have obviously all survived the initial 20-30 that means around 15%-20% of my games will be dead by then. And I'm fine with that. Replacing old disks or pressing new ones is fine by me and pretty easy. Almost all expensive games are 1/5th the price when you buy just the disk. Most of the value is in the packaging and manual. And replacing that lost 15% would be slowly over decades. I would need to scan my entire collection for failure and replace disks as needed over decades.
