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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:

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