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Google Form - Video Game Preservation

Responding the form before reading any further in this post is recommended!

I have been doing some research around this topic after the Video Game History Foundation has spoken that “87% of classic games (before 2010s) are not in release, and are considered critically endangered”

What is worse, is that The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is refusing efforts allow remote access to these old games for research and learning purposes, just like a historian would do research of events by reading and viewing any historic materials, the restrictions to access of different media because of convoluted copyright laws are a real world problem!

Availability of Video Games (originally released before 2010) is approximately 13 percent, slightly above pre-World War II audio recordings (10 percent or less) and below the survival rate of American silent films (14 percent). You would think they would take more effort but no, high revenue and profits doesn’t equal to better services.

Source: https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

And then there is another can of worms like ROMs, Emulation, Recompilation and internet piracy.

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  • @[email protected]English
    19•1 day ago

    The last page of this survey is heavy handed and full of leading questions. It feels like you’re less trying to gather research data and more trying to push an agenda; it would not pass scientific review. The fact that I agree with the agenda being pushed doesn’t change my feelings on that.

    A better method would have been to ask the question in a neutral way (e.g. ‘Do you believe that storing game cartridges qualifies as preservation?’ or even better, ‘Storing game cartridges qualifies as preservation’ as a statement, with a Strongly Disagree - Strongly Agree scale), then at the end of the survey provide the information you’re providing in the links below each question.