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Dustin Bailey

After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout's source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we're losing game history because companies "take authority but not responsibility" for preservation

Fallout.

Original Fallout lead Tim Cain has a big hand in gaming history, and has publicly lamented the state of game preservation more than once. Cain himself has tried to save a fair bit of the history around his games, and it all serves as a perfect illustration of just why game preservation is so hard to do effectively.

In a new video, Cain laments how game companies keep losing old development materials while actively obstructing their employees from doing their own preservation work.

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