Posts on February 2010

Retro Gaming Tournament in March

The Retro Gaming Tournament will be here soon! Ms. Pac-Man! Asteroids! Battlezone! Duck Hunt! Tetris! Register: March 8-13, Play: March 15-20.

Top Games - Week of Feb 15

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.

Brief Links

Atlantic Monthly has a short piece on the state of video game preservation: "Pac Rat..."

Top Games - Week of Feb 8

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.

What Happens to Old Web Games?

John Scalzo (of the Video Game Librarian blog) has a nice article over on Gaming Target called "Bejeweled Blitz and the Disappearing Web Games." In it, John talks about the difficulty in preserving Web games when the developer is not longer interested in making them available.

Top Games - Week of Feb 1

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.

Conversations in Teaching: Five-Minute Recipes for Success

Members of the Instructor College share their tips and tricks for making the most out of the first 10 minutes of class. What they do, how they do it, and why the first ten minutes can be the most important ten minutes of your class section.