All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Every iPod clickwheel game has been saved from digital oblivion, thanks to a dedicated preservation project

A dedicated team of Apple enthusiasts has completed an unprecedented preservation effort, saving all 54 commercial games released for clickwheel-based iPod devices. With the iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project now finished, iPod owners can replay these games anytime they like.Read Entire Article

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.

The Classic iPod Clickwheel Games Have Been Preserved

Thanks to the efforts of game preservationists, 54 iPod clickwheel games will live on in posterity.

All 54 Lost Clickwheel IPod Games Have Been Preserved For Posterity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late '00s. The community was working to get around Apple's onerous FairPlay DRM...

The Clickwheel Games Preservation Project Completes Its Efforts to Preserve All 54 iPod Games

Almost a year ago, Federico linked to a story on Ars Technica by Kyle Orland about efforts to preserve iPod games, the process has been completed. Yes, iPod games, not iPad. For a brief period of time in the late 2000s, Apple offered a selection of 54 iPod games for sale through the iTunes Store. The collection included titles from notable developers like Square Enix (Crystal Defenders and Song Summoner), Sega (Sonic the Hedgehog), and Namco (Pa…

You can now play all those old iPod games, if you still have an iPod

Before the iPhone, Apple took a shot at making the iPod a device that could do more than just play music. Amongst it: playing games.1 If you find yourself feeling nostalgic for that era, you can now revisit those classic games designed for the iPod—it just takes jumping through a few hoops, as Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland reports: Now that the consolidated clickwheel game collection is complete, though, owners of any iPod 5G+ or iPod Nano 3G+ sho…