75: Classic Video Games are Disappearing and Nobody Cares
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
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Hello and welcome to episode 75 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast. Today we're going to dig into an interesting and potentially scary topic about preserving classic games. The Video Game Foundation published some very jarring data that almost 90% of classic games are unavailable to play. Let's take a look at this from the side of players, publishers and those trying to find ways to preserve these games. Are we too late and will some of these games disappear forever? Also in this episode, we tell a story about when Kit's life was almost ruined at San Diego Comic-Con. In our Never A Minute segment we let artificial intelligence take over the podcast and the results are shocking. We wrap it up with the latest news and answer questions from our wonderful Patreon community. It's all coming up right now.
0:00 - Let's get this show on the road
17:19 - Kit's life was nearly ruined at San Diego Comic-Con
27:27 - AI takes over the podcast...two words "Nintendo Kiss" - listen to find out what happened
41:17 - Games we are playing (Final Fantasy 16, Return to Monkey Island, Dordogne, Venba)
1:05:00 - News News News (Classic game preservation discussion)
1:27:23 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're going to be talking about what is going on with classic games, and more specifically, preserving classic games. |
| 0:17.6 | A big new study just dropped saying that 90% of games are unavailable to play. |
| 0:23.7 | I think confirms something we were feeling was happening. |
| 0:27.4 | It's interesting to really dig into the conversations around this because on the proof, |
| 0:31.9 | it seems like a lot of people just don't care. |
| 0:33.7 | It's like it is what it is. |
| 0:34.7 | What are you going to do? |
| 0:35.9 | But it's so scary to think about all of these games that are so important to the history of games, |
| 0:42.3 | to our history as video game players, just being lost forever. |
| 0:47.3 | And that's a possibility that's really real and not great, honestly. |
| 0:51.3 | It is concerning, and we're going to dig into it from the video game publisher side, the preservation side, just from the fan side. |
| 0:58.0 | We're gonna really attack this. We're gonna figure it out. |
| 1:01.0 | We're gonna find the solution. |
| 1:02.0 | Today, in this podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | Right here. |
| 1:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 1:06.0 | If you want to support us finding the solution to preserving video games and classic video games. |
| 1:11.1 | Join us on patreon.com slash kid and Krista. |
| 1:14.9 | Everything that we do here is made possible by our lovely, wonderful, beautiful Patreon family. |
| 1:21.4 | And it's great. |
| 1:22.7 | Sometimes people say, well, if I sign up for this Patreon, what do I get? |
| 1:25.2 | Well, let me tell you about something cool that we do every week. |
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