Authored by Sarah Raezler: On our shelves we have around 1400 titles available for your gaming pleasure. And having worked at the CVGA since we opened in August 2008 I feel confident enough to say that if we took out Halo, Call of Duty, Smash, Fifa and NCAA Football people would have no idea what to play. I intend to use this space to introduce (and hopefully sell you on) some of the very awesome games we have in our collection that rarely get any play time.
For example, House of the Dead:...
Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week.
Authored by Doug Carmichael: In addition to Val's post, I thought I'd post a more head on of our wall.
Post by Maria Bonn. On Wednesday, the Scholarly Publishing Office activated more than 225,000 "buy a reprint" links in HathiTrust, increasing the number of public domain reprints available for purchase by more than 300%.
It's been almost 2 years since the archive first opened, when our game selection was a little limited. Now we have a few more games, and our shelves look a little less barren. It's amazing how quickly collections can grow.
Now is the time to register for next week's Retro Gaming Tournament.
Wired.com has images from this weekend's Game Over 3 art show in San Francisco: "Classic Videogames Mutate in Game Over Art Show."
