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Game Preservation, The Completionist, and the Video Game History Foundation
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Mariah joins the conversation to add crucial context to the disc-ending debate. Multiple major storefronts have already closed — the Wii U eShop, Nintendo 3DS Shop, Xbox 360 marketplace — erasing games that existed only in digital form. [1] — Mariah "Mariah (the guest gamer) warned that relying entirely on digital storefronts puts game preservation at risk. Multiple Nintendo and Xbox sto…" 52:16 She says she doesn't inherently oppose reducing e-waste or improving console economics, but she doesn't trust companies to preserve gaming history. She highlights the Video Game History Foundation as a nonprofit working to archive and provide researcher access to historically significant games. She praises YouTuber The Completionist, who downloaded every single game from the Nintendo Wii U eShop before it shut down and donated the archive to the Foundation. David jokes that a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol could seed all these games publicly — getting immediately shouted down by the room — before conceding the point that centralized corporate archives are fragile and unreliable.
