When I ask Frank Sevalde, founder and director of the History of Video Games, to explain the importance of preserving and preserving old video games, he answers with the analogy of the movie. Imagine, he said: “If the films are released only on, like VHS, at all. You want to watch Back to the future? Well, you have to go on EBY, and you have to find the antique VHS version slightly decomposing. You should find a VCR that works, or a TV connected to it-or external standards that make it appear correct on the modern TV-and you may need to correction a time base because the magnetic flow signal is not synchronous. “
For many games, this is the state of industry. For the largest part, there are now contract games only in their original form: on a tablet or cartridge that is included in a control unit that no one has no longer. It will be difficult for many of these games to find them for the players again – and if we do nothing to save them, it may disappear completely.
