Almost 90 percent of classic games are “critically endangered,” say archivists

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“The commercial market alone can’t solve this.”

The report defines “classic games” as a game that was released before 2010.

Confirming the release status of every video game published before 2010 would have been an impossible undertaking, so the report focuses on a sampling of 4,000 games released in the US on one of three consoles that have been chosen to represent different levels of community and commercial interest. Here’s how the VGHF defined those categories:ecosystems, with low commercial interest and few games available. For our example, we picked the Commodore 64.

The VGHF called out the Game Boy specifically, with only 25 games out of the 1,873 total games released during its lifetime still available for purchase.

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