thinking about how in a few decades there will be video games that are a hundred years old
spacewar! is currently 61 years old. pong is 51 years old; adventure is 43.
how many of them will still be playable by their hundredth birthday?

thinking about how in a few decades there will be video games that are a hundred years old
spacewar! is currently 61 years old. pong is 51 years old; adventure is 43.
how many of them will still be playable by their hundredth birthday?
PONG will probably still be around, in some way or another. the other earliest videogames? who knows. probably not, unless someone specifically cares for it
Adventure is probably pretty safe because of how many ports and emulators there are
There are a lot of clones of Spacewar! but the original thing ran on a vector display. I have my doubts as to whether there will be any working vector monitors in forty years' time.
I mean the question then becomes what part of the videogame is the videogame. is a port of adventure on a smartphone still adventure? is a port of pong on a machine that doesn't have the original inputs still pong? if yes, then why isn't an emulation of spacewar that's running on a non-vector display not spacewar? is there any way to have videogames endure if they're not on the exact original hardware?
to be clear idk the answer and it's a question to ask of an archivist, I guess
The kind of people always trying to run DOOM on everything will hopefully continue to always to try run DOOM.