Here's a list I found right here:

http://lostmediawiki.com/Category:Lost_video_games

And the question of whether or not the games are good, is irrelevant.

Cancelled, Cancelled, Cancelled. Did any of these games make it to store shelves? If not, they don't support your position. 

http://lostmediawiki.com/Darkspore_(lost/unplayable_video_game;_2011)

http://lostmediawiki.com/Dan_Burry:_Jump_and_Run_(lost_DOS_arcade_platformer;_1995)

http://lostmediawiki.com/Chaos_Maze_(lost_DOS_port_of_Spanish_adventure_game;_1995)

Just some I found at random right there.

All PC titles. I thought it would be obvious why those are irrelevant to this discussion. 

You know, many people emulate DOS games through DOSBox too.

How does that support the argument that emulation of modern console games is needed for preservation? 

Explain how modern emulation is absolutely nesseccary to preserve software. I understand that eventually we will need to rip discs/carts to preserve them, but not *now*. And ripping a cart/disc isn't the same as emulation. Yes, those Atari games were saved by digital preservation, but it was because of people that did it decades after the fact. Those Atari games weren't saved by some guy in his basement in 1972 that ripped and emulated carts on his PC, so that he could sell bootleg copies behind the Kwik-E-Mart. Modern movies aren't being saved by that guy you know that will burn twelve children's movies onto DVD for $5. They were saved by some guy in the 90's or 2000's doing it with his own collection. They will be saved by somebody in 2020 burning his obscure children's DVD collection to his harddrive. 

Do you get what I'm saying here? Modern piracy has nothing to do with game preservation, and to pretend that it does is absurd for obvious reasons. See my Winds of Winter example above. 

-_- That's what I get for using Wikipedia. 

But how exactly is this fair use? 

I'm not sure if you even know what you're arguing for anymore. But OK, let's go with the Satellaview games:

http://lostmediawiki.com/BS_Bokujou_Monogatari_(lost_Satellaview_game;_1996)

http://lostmediawiki.com/BS_Zelda_no_Densetsu_(partially_lost_Satellaview_game;_1995)

Modded versions of Zelda and Harvest Moon. We already have Zelda and Harvest Moon saved.

I'm arguing that emulating a modern console game on PC does nothing to help "preserve" the game for future generations.