In case you haven't noticed, since we entered the digital age and store our knowledge on digital devices, every day the library of Alexandria is burning somewhere - meaning that humanity loses large amounts of knowledge everyday without anybody really noticing. Just look for how often you read that some governmental institute in some country has lost tons of (reasearch) data due to a hardware failure and not-working backups. It really happens everyday, and not only with NASA or the United Nations, which are two of the most prominent examples.
Games: I think you might have a hard time finding a working original Pac Man machine somewhere outside a museum. But look at the long list of clones of that game. It survived.
Look at all those Tetris clones.
Look at all those clones you guys have written of old Atari/Commodore/Apple II games.
At least the popular ones seem to survive somehow. But what board games besides chess do you know that have survived the last couple of centuries? Sooner or later, everything will be forgotten.
You need to make peace with yourself and find out how badly you want to have your own apple tree or monument. And if it's really worth spending some or most of your life-time on it.
Games: I think you might have a hard time finding a working original Pac Man machine somewhere outside a museum. But look at the long list of clones of that game. It survived.
Look at all those Tetris clones.
Look at all those clones you guys have written of old Atari/Commodore/Apple II games.
At least the popular ones seem to survive somehow. But what board games besides chess do you know that have survived the last couple of centuries? Sooner or later, everything will be forgotten.
You need to make peace with yourself and find out how badly you want to have your own apple tree or monument. And if it's really worth spending some or most of your life-time on it.