Gamasutra article on game preservation

[BadMouth]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6271/where_games_go_to_sleep_the_game_.php

[Hurray Banana]

There is a similiar problem with paintings, you don't really get all the sketches and studies that went into the final painting produced, I know sometimes these turn up.

It's a pity that all the companies can't offer up detailed technical docs about how their hardware worked so they could be easily (I use that word cautiously) emulated as this would help to some degree.

[SammyWI]

Interesting article.  The comments after the article are just as interesting.