The BBC one is a weird example too, though, because it literally never occurred to them that anyone would ever want to watch any of their shows again after they'd been aired once. Reruns as a concept didn't even exist then, and film was really quite expensive. It's mind-boggling to think of it now, though, that a TV studio that spent so much time and effort making something could just casually destroy it, but preservation (for any reason) of the film simply did not compute... at that time. So I'm rather glad that someone has decided relatively early into the life of the video game medium that they should be preserved, because there have already been quite a few older games that have been lost, or have become non-functional.

I think it is more important to preserve the source code of the games. The graphics and sounds can be freely forgotten, if you ask me. Many of them are compressed to hell and back, it is not worth preserving them.

The source code, however, gives you the most 'honest' view of the games, and how they were meant to function.