Old Games as Digital Artifacts

Archiver wrote an interesting post regarding the potential use of old video games and the like as digital artifacts, to be saved for future generations.

I always kind of viewed this sort of thing as e-junk, having seen hundreds of Atari 2600′s at the flea market and reading this [video] story about all those games being thrown away a while back.

As Archiver says:

So, next time when you see a floppy disk or tape archive lying around, think twice before disposing it and check if it can be of value to the above institutions.