Old and New: Aging Games and You

We hear it all the time from our enthusiast gaming friends. We see it everyday on the gaming forums. We can’t avoid it in the game stores. “This game has aged badly.” As if it were a fine wine, gamers talk about older games as if their properties were somehow different in today’s gaming environment than the moment they first jumped onto shelves. These games do not change. Some mold, or break, or crack; but they never age. Electronic media is binary: it works or it does not. Why then do we