Nearly 9 out of 10 classic video games are out of print. Here's why saving games matters

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Day 612:49Nearly 9 out of 10 classic video games are out of print. Here’s why that matters

If you enjoyed playing video games years ago in the basement of your childhood home, you may want to go back and dust off those old machines — because a new study says there likely won’t be any other way to relive those digital memories.

A study released Monday by the Seattle-based Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) says that nearly nine out of 10 classic video games are “critically endangered” and unavailable in the modern gaming market.

Phil Salvador, the foundation’s library director and author of the study,

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