{"id":1317,"date":"2022-04-24T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/talking-point-wata-and-the-grey-areas-of-game-preservation-is-there-any-better-way\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T15:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T15:14:45","slug":"talking-point-wata-and-the-grey-areas-of-game-preservation-is-there-any-better-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/talking-point-wata-and-the-grey-areas-of-game-preservation-is-there-any-better-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: WATA And The Grey Areas Of Game Preservation &#8211; Is There Any Better Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATAAARGH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game industry is youthful compared to other areas of entertainment and recorded culture &#8211; younger than film and TV, and of course a baby compared to printed works. Yet we&#8217;re now decades into the history of gaming, especially if you go back to the systems of the 1970s, perhaps even a little earlier. Even if you choose to focus on the &#8216;modern&#8217; post-crash era of gaming, we&#8217;re rapidly approaching 40 years within that narrower perspective.<\/p>\n<p>We see this every day as fans, of course &#8211; franchises like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog are over 30-35 years old. We have commemorative products and re-releases on a regular basis, and the way we appreciate and consume retro games is also continually evolving.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-wata-and-the-grey-areas-of-game-preservation-is-there-any-better-way\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: WATA And The Grey Areas Of Game Preservation &#8211; Is There Any Better Way?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATAAARGH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game industry is youthful compared to other areas of entertainment and recorded culture &#8211; younger than film and TV, and of course a baby compared to printed works. Yet we&#8217;re now decades into the history of gaming, especially if you go back to the systems of the 1970s, perhaps even a little earlier. Even if you choose to focus on the &#8216;modern&#8217; post-crash era of gaming, we&#8217;re rapidly approaching 40 years within that narrower perspective.<\/p>\n<p>We see this every day as fans, of course &#8211; franchises like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog are over 30-35 years old. We have commemorative products and re-releases on a regular basis, and the way we appreciate and consume retro games is also continually evolving.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-wata-and-the-grey-areas-of-game-preservation-is-there-any-better-way\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}