Unlike movies or books, games require special hardware to play, and — increasingly — don't even exist in the physical world at all.
, said the idea came out of the need to preserve the games soon to be made permanently unavailable.
"And while fans out there and archivists and people online have gone out of their way to download games and make them easy for people to rip and consume and to preserve, there's no legal way for anyone to play these [older] games." "Digital is taking over, and so now more than ever, it is becoming so important that you physically go out and buy your games because you never know what's going to happen."
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