I love video games (old and new) the excitment of playing them back when i was 12-14. I rember loving Txt adventures, Infocom was the stuff back then. Nowdays I have no interest whatsoever in them, that is me, and I know other do have interest in them. I guess what I'm saying is I'm not anti old games. But the fact is, anything that is recorded or kept for the future is either done by the goverment (librarys, records) museums (look but dont touch, I know there are others, such as the arcade museums where you can play) and groups of people (normally called societies) that presrve the items/knowledge/customes. Games like we are talking are going to fall in the last catogory. The goverment wont be doing it. Only dedicted people are going to make this happens. And sadly (opinion only) there isnt enough interest to get this done. While I would support it , I doubt I would have any active role, and would not be willing to donate even as I just dont have the interest. Now if others (and I am sure there are some, enough, that is the question) where willing, it might happen.
I guess my point is, only dedicated people are goign to get this done, but I'm thinking that there just simply might not be enough of them for the job that this would require.
The sad fact is many things are not preserved. There are certian makes of cars from the early 1900-30's that there are no known cars left to view/drive/examine. There are animals that are extinct. Preservation of "old stuff" that is viewed as "unimportant" by the majority is simply left to the minority, and many times its far to small to get the job done.
-edit- dang spammers I read the whole thing but didnt look at the date... old old resurected thread. my bad for enableing hte spammer (err, it looked like a spammer, maybe not?)
I love video games (old and new) the excitment of playing them back when i was 12-14. I rember loving Txt adventures, Infocom was the stuff back then. Nowdays I have no interest whatsoever in them, that is me, and I know other do have interest in them. I guess what I'm saying is I'm not anti old games. But the fact is, anything that is recorded or kept for the future is either done by the goverment (librarys, records) museums (look but dont touch, I know there are others, such as the arcade museums where you can play) and groups of people (normally called societies) that presrve the items/knowledge/customes. Games like we are talking are going to fall in the last catogory. The goverment wont be doing it. Only dedicted people are going to make this happens. And sadly (opinion only) there isnt enough interest to get this done. While I would support it , I doubt I would have any active role, and would not be willing to donate even as I just dont have the interest. Now if others (and I am sure there are some, enough, that is the question) where willing, it might happen.
I guess my point is, only dedicated people are goign to get this done, but I'm thinking that there just simply might not be enough of them for the job that this would require.
The sad fact is many things are not preserved. There are certian makes of cars from the early 1900-30's that there are no known cars left to view/drive/examine. There are animals that are extinct. Preservation of "old stuff" that is viewed as "unimportant" by the majority is simply left to the minority, and many times its far to small to get the job done.
-edit- dang spammers I read the whole thing but didnt look at the date... old old resurected thread. my bad for enableing hte spammer (err, it looked like a spammer, maybe not?)