We lost the fight for game preservation

Ask any gamer about game preservation and, most likely, they will argue in favor of it. The idea of losing any piece of art is a net negative for the world and that industry. Without a comprehensive historyof a particular medium, it becomes that much harder to trace trends, avoid pitfalls, and find inspiration on how to move forward. Games are unique in this conversation compared to things like books, films, and music in that hardware and software changes so rapidly that a much more concerted effort has to be made to preserve them. Thankfully, the community has taken major steps in preserving games that publishers and developers either won’t or can’t.