Remember the initial enthusiasm about CDs? They were promoted as pretty much "eternal".
My Amiga floppy discs and my VHS tapes are outlasting most of my burned CDs and DVDs, which are becoming unreadable and dying like flies. Of course there's also the disc rot with Laserdisc. Granted, most writable optical discs were cheaply made to reduce costs, and the better - and costly - ones are still working, but I've found it's the reverse of what everybody expected: carts seem pretty much eternal (I've rescued some from the mud, and they still work), magnetic supports are holding surprisingly well, and optical discs not so much. That's another reason why I don't like to collect stuff from the Playstation era on, the supports feel... cheap and unreliable.
Digital media, and things like VHS tapes, floppy discs and music cassettes all have their own problems.
If you keep floppy discs & VHS tapes stored well, and never use them much, they will last a long time. But every time you play a vinyl record, a cassette, or a VHS tape, you degrade the sound or video slightly.
Game carts are different because they have ROM chips- they are more like digital media, such as CD's, which store data in 1's and 0's. When they they fail, they fail completely.
CD's and DVD's only become unreadable because over time they get scratched, or warped/aged. Apart from that, the 1's and 0's on a CD never actually get corrupted.
Old technology is better in some ways than new technology. CRT TV's are better than all the flat screens that came after, such as LCD, LED and plasma. But TV manufacturers make more money from selling flat panels, as they don't cost as much to make, and they aren't as bulky. Only now with OLED, are TV's catching up to the picture quality of CRT's.
I also prefer to watch films that were shot on film, rather than with a digital movie camera.