The Vanishing Of Video Games
CD’s will die. DVD’s will die. Cartridge will become unreadable. All the video games we have nowadays are in danger of vanishing. The reason is quite simple. Currently there is no medium that will last forever. But on top of that, there is no standard for archiving & preserving. Nor is the industry spearheading this.
Kotaku has written a quite interesting article on these dangers, and why it is that we should fight for this. Why should these games & codes be preserved.