https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBZNXJoEf8

Worth a watch and GOG, as usual, is mentioned ;)

Even though he covers a bunch of stuff on the issue he lefts a ton of stuff unmentioned such as redumps, individual efforts, nostalgia remasters vs real stuff/archiving, piracy and all.
Preservation of these types of media can be quite tricky I know but I hope other folks can adress these issues to us regular dudes ;)

"Niche" video on the matter, kinda, but worth a watch as I've said ;)

That guy says "you can go out and digitally purchase most any game or film released in the last few decades, no problem" - that's not true. Lots of old games are not currently on any digital market.

By making statements like that, that guy is contributing to the problem of the sad state of game preservation. I've seen game journalists do the same thing, by implying the untruth that Steam carries just about every PC game that has ever been published.

Reckless statements like those reinforce ignorance in the minds of consumers regarding whole games that are being lost to time.

Did you know Steam doesn't even carry Alpha Centauri?

Seriously, how is that even legal? :P

Michael Moore was complaining a few years back that for one of his films, the master had been destroyed without his knowledge.

Things do happen.

It's an EA game and on Origin.

And it's here, but not on Steam.

Same as a ton of other titles available here, on Origin, but not on Steam. GOG nailed 'em all first. If I'm correct, Origin dosbox games and other like AC are GOG versions! Same thing in other cases like Wizardry on Steam etc Holy crap. And he barely spoke about arcade machines. Mr. Cifaldi here (a must see!) gave us a clear and precise explanation of what happens in the annals of the industry and even outside of it. Literally there's a crapton (heh) of devs, publishers and similar dudes out there who simply don't give a rat's ass about their IPs and stuff.

But you nailed it. It's a sad state and it extends for every damn platform out there, pc included.

Atari does a great job of game preservation.

We can never forget the time they carefully buried all of those copies of "E.T." so has to prevent them from coming to harm in the event of a nuclear attack.

Also not true for many movies and tv shows.