87% of classic games are not available for purchase today

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, the games we really should care about the most are games which, once shut down, become actually impossible to play -- online games with servers that once turned off cannot be replicated, phone apps that nobody backed up, etc.  We have already lost a great many games this way and those numbers are going to exponentially increase over time considering how many games use remote servers now.  Anything with a physical disk or cart or disc or what have you is fine, they're almost all backed up either legally or otherwise.  Those games, including most older games (other than lost computer games which had few copies made and nobody saved)  are not lost.  It's modern games we should be more concerned about...

Emulation certainly is not as good as the real thing, I love my real older hardware collection, but that stuff won't work forever.  In the future we will have to rely on emulation or FPGA recreation for many formats.