game preservation

While point-and-click adventures were pretty popular back in the 1990s, a few examples of the genre have been forgotten over time – none more so than Noah's Ark, a Japanese PC / Mac title from 1995 published by NEC InterChannel. Only released in Japan, the existence of the game was only...

Tim & Geoff Follin's development disk archive, containing music and sound files from their work at Software Creations, has been successfully preserved and made available online. This significant achievement in video game music preservation was accomplished by Kevin Edwards, a former colleague of...

We're all keenly aware that vintage gaming technology isn't going to last forever, but with cartridges, there's a pressing issue of valuable save data becoming lost when internal batteries eventually fail. We've already seen devices hit the market that attempt to solve this problem – such as...

Game preservation has been a hot topic over the last few years, and has recently come to the forefront again with the abrupt closure of the gaming magazine / website Game Informer, which left fans and former employees scrambling to save decades' worth of interviews, features, and news articles...

Game preservation faces a lot of unique challenges, but one of its major obstacles is opposition from organizations who don't believe the public should have access to remote libraries of games. Earlier this year, for instance, the ESA's lawyer Steve Englund was quizzed on the topic of game...