I've spent the last couple of months playing my old Pokemon games to completion, and messing around with old, somehow still working hardware like my e-Reader, GBA-to-GameCube connector, etc. I even managed to backup all my cartridge save files in case the hardware finally gives out. The fact that the entire game is on disk or cartridge and that features like online play and other events can be emulated by community servers means that I wasn't missing out at all. <br><br>But I feel really bad for the kids growing up with games today that won't be able to be played decades later. Hell, I'd say my experience playing my old Pokemon games today was as good or better than when they were first released. I could print out codes to scan into my e-reader, I could use community-made calculators to reduce RNG for events, and play with fun glitches that weren't known at the time. I can't image that would be the case for many games now that will shrivel to nothing when the severs are shut down. Is it even possible to back up some of these games? I know that pirates haven't had any issues accessing the games themselves, but how does that translate to the server-provided content? Are they able to provide enhanced tools for player benefit, or is just a husk that lacks many of the gameplay features that contemporaneous players would have experienced? <br><br>An amazing thing about books and movies is that they're like vessels that allow us to time-travel to a specific place and time. My experience with my Pokemon games has allowed me to time-travel to the early 00s and experience that world once more. Will future gamers ever be able to time-travel back to the 20s and relive gameplay as it was?