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Considering we can read parchments thousands of years old, and stone tablets going back even further, perhaps we should focus efforts on copying what we can to the time-tested preserved data formats.

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Im going to assume this is tongue-in-cheek, but if you happen to find a way to copy Mario 64 to a stone tablet, I'd love to hear about it.

Not THAT difficult - assuming you have enough stone tablets. I mean the program code exists. The problem I think you'd have (and true of most of these digital artifacts) is all the other hardware and software you would have to similarly encode to be able to recreate the machine and OS capable of running it...

Not to mention a large amount of the artifacts involved to play those games aren’t necessarily documented or accessible. The Nintendo 64’s CIC chip was only reverse engineered quite recently and required a serious reverse-engineering effort. [1]

[1] https://recon.cx/2015/slides/recon2015-19-mike-ryan-john-mcm...

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