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Haven't read the article yet, but from skimming it it doesn't seem to mention The Internet Archive's work in preserving classic arcade, computer and console games (not sure if it was already underway in 2011):

https://archive.org/details/software

It is quite extensive and growing all the time.

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They're doing good work and I work in the preservation industry. Unfortunately, many games in the last 5-10 years and maybe even a bit earlier than that have been moving to "if the company isn't running the centralized black box server, this game simply can't work" model. I think the main reason being anti-piracy and DRM, but the side effect is those games are much harder to preserve.

Well, the internet archive stores the games, not the source or the development material. Maybe they could start doing so, but I guess it would cost them a lot to find storage space for that.

I've been trying to collect as much video game source code as I can at https://github.com/videogamepreservation/.

Please add Allegiance (open source space sim by Microsoft). Also Mechcommander 2.

They're pretty big repos (461MB and 785MB compressed) but I'll try to get them uploaded ASAP.

That is awesome. Thank you for doing this.

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