I remember my excitement when I discovered that somebody, somehow, had managed to preserve the original Neverwinter Nights. The online service version from 1991 through AOL, not the Bioware reimagining or the Unlimited Realms single player remake. This specific issue of losing access to online-only games is 30 years old now but there are major efforts at preservation that are truly laudable. Time is the inevitable destroyer of all things though and like so much of what has been valued throughout history the vast majority of our favorite games will disappear and eventually all of them. I still have tons of boxed copies of SSI, Westwood, SirTech etc games from the 80s and 90s that came on floppies the shelf lives of which ran down probably 15 years ago, but having the manuals, clue books and maps handy when replaying digital versions is great.<br>*Edit - Technically it is a problem even older, closer to almost 50 years old, if you count the games made on and played across PLATO computers at universities and such; some have been preserved but others are lost to a point where it is not even a certainty as to precisely where role playing computer games started.