Understanding why these games refuse to stay dead, and how they keep coming back, reveals something about how players form attachments and how the medium preserves its own history. Modern platforms keep old titles aliveThe most practical reason these games survive is that reaching them has never been easier. Preservation gives games a second lifeThe survival of old titles is not only a commercial story. Why the dead keep risingThe games that refuse to stay dead do so because several forces now align to bring them back. As long as players keep caring, the best of them will never truly stay dead.