Re:A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt ...
by mrob on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:58PM
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>I suspect that part of that is that the games industry is just really young.
And ignoring archival happened before in another young industry. The majority of silent films are lost. From Wikipedia: "Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation estimates that more than 90% of American films made before 1929 are lost, and the Library of Congress estimates that 75% of all silent films are lost forever." I don't think it's surprising that the game industry acts the same way.
And ignoring archival happened before in another young industry. The majority of silent films are lost. From Wikipedia: "Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation estimates that more than 90% of American films made before 1929 are lost, and the Library of Congress estimates that 75% of all silent films are lost forever." I don't think it's surprising that the game industry acts the same way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_film