Why Game Preservation Matters

Most games made before 2000 are commercially unavailable, playable only through museums, archives and emulation. The Museum of Modern Art acquired 14 video games in 2012, including Pac-Man and Tetris, treating them as design works.

The Strong Museum runs the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Source ports keep classics like Doom running on new hardware, and legal battles over emulation continue to define who may keep digital history alive..