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🧵1/3 What if the history of games, films, and culture disappears not because it…

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🧵1/3 What if the history of games, films, and culture disappears not because it is lost… but because no one is allowed to keep it? 🎮⚠️

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia & pioneering video game designer, reflects on how fragile cultural memory becomes when preservation depends on luck rather than systems.

Read his essay Preserving Gaming History, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/131/

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2/3 Mechner recounts discovering that even major archives can vanish, forcing creators to rely on enthusiasts and chance discoveries to recover lost history.

When “historical oblivion is the default, not the exception,” what survives is often what individuals decide to save, not what institutions guarantee.

Orange graphic quoting Jordan Mechner, Game Designer, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote "I believe in fair use, and I fear for a society in which our ability to document and preserve our history is effectively hamstrung and blocked by large companies seeking to expand their control of digital platforms."