Piracy Is Saving Video-Game History

The games industry won’t keep old games in circulation — so it’s all up to the pirates

Clive Thompson

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Video games are one of the most significant cultural forms of the last 50 years — but they’re vanishing.

Commercially, anyway. Let’s say you wanted to buy a game from a few decades ago. Some fun or intriguing title you’ve heard about…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net