The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

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Kronusdark@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 174d

I really wish we could get libraries to handle video game preservation.

ampy@discuss.online · 8 pts · 174d

This sucks. I used them a lot.

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 174d

I never heard of them now but video game preservation is as important as film or music preservation.

tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 174d (3 replies)

Maybe it was just me but they didn't have much of a collection. Some obscure and hard to find but any time I was looking for something obscure and not easy to find they never had it.

Some system collections were pretty big so hopefully others can archive those.

msokiovt@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 174d (2 replies)

They had 390 TB of data, so if anything, people are probably archiving it (at least, I hope so).

charles@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 171d (1 reply)

I saw that there's a community effort to save the entire archive and they were nearly done (or at least are on track to be done before the shutdown occurs). That being said, I haven't been following this super closely so I might be getting the details wrong.

msokiovt@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 171d

It'd be real dope if it were true.

xvertigox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 174d
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