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Are people still playing MS-DOS games or listening to the 50s music. I bet there are a numbered few. But everything will die eventually

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MS-DOS games are pretty much what GOG built their business on, they still sell quite well. 50’s music is still listened by many (over 57 million views on that one song alone), and often used in movies, though that’s a bit of an odd comparison, almost as if old things aren’t worth keeping around. I mean, people still listen to classical music that’s hundreds of years old at this point, read ancient stories, and look at art from artists long dead. I consider games to be an art form like any other, and worth preserving.

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Being for the destruction of all art history is certainly the wildest take I’ve ever seen on this issue.

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