[game_preservation] iPhone Game Preservation

[Mike Melanson]

Mike Melanson wrote:

> As if preservationists didn't have enough to worry about already...

> 

> I have been studying iPhone apps (and games, specifically) pretty 

> carefully recently. In doing so, I realized that certain games used to 

> be available but have apparently vanished from the App Store, probably 

> forever. Quite a daunting challenge considering the single gatekeeper 

> aspect.

> 

> Sure, there's the question of whether most of these iPhone games are 

> worth preserving in the first place.


Fun fact: According to my research, there are currently over 13,000 
titles in the App Store marked "Game". It would cost over US$17,600 to 
purchase all the ones that aren't free.

Don't know if anyone cares. :)

-- 
     -Mike Melanson