There has been some really strong coverage of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social study in the last 24 hours. This one does a great job of explaining why we’re forced to care about availability in the commercial market, and why it doesn’t have to be that way.

87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history.

VGHF's Phil Salvador talks to Ars about his groundbreaking game availability study.

I really enjoyed reading this cause it made me think of games in a whole new light. Anyhow yeah I'm glad I have my lil Retro Pi with the complete libraries of every system released before 1996

Steve Inskeep talking about this now! https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188042795/only-a-small-percentage-of-older-video-games-are-accessible-now-a-new-survey-fin