'The reason why is important is because it's about having not just one copy, but as many copies or several copies as possible,' he said when I asked him about the project. Jirard Khalil, host of the YouTube channel The Completionist, said the idea came out of the need to preserve the games soon to be made permanently unavailable. 'We might be able to preserve World of Warcraft - but is a historian coming to it 20 years later really playing World of Warcraft? All games have additional context that could be lost if we're not preserving and telling stories now.' A Completionist's QuestĪhead of the Nintendo eShop closures, one content creator embarked on the daunting task of buying all 866 Wii U games, as well as the 1,547 3DS games made available. Pocket Story requires Android with an OS version of 4.1 and up. It has gained around 10000 installs so far, with an average rating of 4.0 out of 5 in the play store. Lewin pointed to massively multiplayer RPGs - where community is essential to the experience - as an example of games that could never be replicated. Pocket Story is an Android Role Playing app developed by KKD Yoplay Game Indo4 and published on the Google play store.

'I think the future of game preservation is in making sure we're considering more than the literal games themselves,' says Kelsey Lewin, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to preserving games and teaching their history. The Analogue Pocket can play a host of older titles by emulating the hardware of consoles like the Game Boy Advance.īut there's more to a game than just its code.

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