>>11826704
>It’s a purely digital format and has been so since the beginning.
Except the laserdisk games such as Dragon's Lair or Cube Quest, and some experimental games that used magnetic tape to deliver audio/video such as that Journey arcade game that used a tape to play samples of their songs throughout the game. Or games like very early Pong systems or a few other Arcade cabinets that had no CPU and ran purely on discrete logic.

But yes, 99.99% of games were purely digital. Even if the medium they were stored on was analog (Such as loading a tape in a Commodore 64) the data itself was digital and could be dumped as a digital file. Very few games outside the few examples I mentioned had any purely analog components.

The fact that videogames are a significantly newer medium than music or movies also helps a lot, preservation was hardly on the minds of people who created the phonograph over a century ago. Videogames were also just plain not possible before the electronic age, while obviously music and movies/stage plays were.