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by musicale 620 days ago
IIRC NES, SNES, and Game Boy cartridges have a battery for game saves that eventually needs to be replaced.

The point is a good one though: can we preserve the games so that they'll be playable hundreds of years (or more?!) from now, much as we can still play tabletop games from antiquity (backgammon, 9 man morris, chess, mancala, go, senet, etc.?) Whether the cyborgs of the 25th century will still want to play Mario Kart is unknown however.