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Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won't push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.
It would be great if game developers would open source games when they sunset them, sure. But also this might make it impossible for them to make a remaster of the game and sell it.
You mention doom. But this is a 0.1% case. Thousands of games from that era vanished not because you cannot run them on modern hardware, but because they're utter garbage by modern standards.
https://dos.zone/ exists, and you can play a lot of iconic games in your browser. What's exactly the player count there? And those are the best games from that era.
Dunno, player count has been +1 since you posted this comment though!
Great. In order to prove your commitment to the cause, get to level 8 in dangerous dave.
link: https://www.playdosgames.com/online/dangerous-dave/
It's a dark path. Next you might start making them watch outdated films, maybe even reading outdated books. Before you know it you're teaching them pre WWII history and Newtonian mechanics.
History is important, although more recent history books have better evidence and data than old ones. Literature, generally, ages well, although it's mostly survival bias. A lot of it perishes without any loss to the society. Movies sorta age well. Again, only some. Games don't age well.