Bit Rot

[JSoup]

are you guys saying 25 years from now nes and snes games will be worthless?

To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd; "What's the point? It'll all be dust one day anyway."

[Atarileaf]

To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd; "What's the point? It'll all be dust one day anyway."

True, heck I'm 42, in 25 years I may not be around to play them anyway.

[treismac]

How sad it is to contemplate the gradual and inevitable demise of all the video games from our childhood.

The sound of the Gion Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things;
the color of the sāla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline.
The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night;
the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind.

[BetaWolf47]

I have had a PSX game give me garbage video output before, like a dirty NES cart. I don't know if this was due to bit rot, or due to something in the system.

[Mayhem]

A couple of my audio CDs have rotted a bit, a couple of tracks refuse to play properly. But they are "early" CDs, from the late 80s or early 90s. My game discs are fine currently.