Limited Run Games Wikipedia page: "The company, [...] was based on the preservation of video games"
NO. THEY'RE NOT DOING PRESERVATION.
NO. THEY'RE NOT DOING PRESERVATION.
Just releasing LIMITED runs of physical games is NOT preservation. Physical games, while easier to preserve for longer spans of time, is still ephemere by all accounts, and while that means you can play your game regardless if the system is still alive or way past end of life...
...it's still very much not preservation on its own. Preservation is much more than just physical games, and I dare say it's as much of an ignominy as saying FPGA is not emulation (hi Analogue)
Also by definition preservation means the ability to keep stuff to its original state, but I'll be 100% honest on that: It's physically impossible at some point.
So we rely on copies, descriptions, context, attempt to preserve the original item as much as we could...
So we rely on copies, descriptions, context, attempt to preserve the original item as much as we could...
...but also the reason why we do preservation in the first place, is also ensuring that future generations can still very much access this. Limited runs, BY DEFINITION, DO NOT DO THIS.
For me it's an absolute fraud to say it's preservation in that case, so just say it's just about keeping physical games alive, but do not pretend to be more than that.
We are not doing this just to release 100k copies of a game for one particular day and then pretend we preserved something.
People do things their own way, my way is through releases on the Internet if I can do it, regardless of legality of the release itself.
Some people want to do it in a more "legit" way, but these legit ways such as museums still don't, and WON'T satisfy me.
Some people want to do it in a more "legit" way, but these legit ways such as museums still don't, and WON'T satisfy me.
However I'm not here to make enemies, I'm not here to betray people, but my honesty brings me to not believe in museums at all or just bring items to one warehouse and hope for something. But they're still allies because it's just counterproductive for them to be our enemies.
This also means game companies as a whole, from publishers to manufacturers, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, etc.
We still want them to be real allies because they're the closest to achieve pure preservation goals (but just don't, let's be honest here).
We still want them to be real allies because they're the closest to achieve pure preservation goals (but just don't, let's be honest here).
I also do this because I just kinda like looking inside things I'm interested on, you bet if I was like at Nintendo, with a goal to comb through their archives to see what can be used, I'd be having a great time lol
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