The video game industry's efforts to preserve its surprisingly fragile history took a turn this week when the Video Game History Foundation shared data indicating that 87 percent of games released before 2010 have not been preserved in any real capacity. The Foundation has long faced an uphill struggle against the United States Copyright Office, a subdivision of the Library of Congress, which has yet to greenlight broad protection exemptions for game preservation.
Such exemptions have faced resistance by the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group backed by major publishers like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. And even after this week's alarm bell, the ESA is still convinced that said publishers and their affiliates are the ones best equipped to preserve video game history.
Read more over at Game Developer.