[oldmanjay]

I would imagine a fair few emulator writers don't much care about maintaining the "backups" fiction, even under the classier name "archiving"

[cmdrfred]

Historians in 2200 will be thanking them none the less, we lost a lot of early film lets not let that happen to this art form.

[rbanffy]

And it's not only film. Early television, audio recording, books (in special in times when copying them was costly)... The list of information we lost is enormous.

[ekianjo]

There is zero value from games not being published or sold anymore, so the term archiving is very much appropriate.