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in addition to making the full games themselves available for download.
Although these sites dance on legally murky grounds (at best), they are
doing us all a huge service by being, in essence, a makeshift library for
games.
I propose that we should preserve games in publicly funded librar-
ies. Of course, what that will mean in the post-paper future has yet to be
seen. Either way, whatever institution is protecting the works of Mary
Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe should also be preserving the works of Rich-
ard Garriott and Tomohiro Nishikado.
Why Some Stuff Stuck
Why is Go and chess still played everywhere in the world, while some
other games that we have a record of aren't? What are the properties of
games that became, and stayed successful? What gives a game staying
power?
Of course, I believe that I have distilled the answer via the lens fea-
tured in this topic. But I encourage you to ind your own answers.
