Paragraphs 23 on are pretty interesting. The author talks about preserving outmoded technology for posterity. Surely, he must be aware of the emulation/rom scene, and online communities like AssemblerGames which are pertaining to do just that.
Sure, there is Satellaview content lost to time, and that is exactly where we are going to be 10 years from now when our current consoles' DRM servers go offline and we have no way of playing that WiiWare or XBLA exclusive game that is tied to specific machines. Remember how much phones preloaded with flappy bird were selling for on ebay?
And his takeaway is thought provoking. We're doing this to ourselves. In a way this is bad - if we don't understand our past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them. But then again, like so many time traveling heroes in our stories, sometimes it takes ignoring the past or ignoring tradition to build a better future.
Sure, there is Satellaview content lost to time, and that is exactly where we are going to be 10 years from now when our current consoles' DRM servers go offline and we have no way of playing that WiiWare or XBLA exclusive game that is tied to specific machines. Remember how much phones preloaded with flappy bird were selling for on ebay?
And his takeaway is thought provoking. We're doing this to ourselves. In a way this is bad - if we don't understand our past mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them. But then again, like so many time traveling heroes in our stories, sometimes it takes ignoring the past or ignoring tradition to build a better future.