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

Details online at http://tinyurl.com/retro-cvga

Top Games - Week of Feb 15

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

1. FIFA 10
2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
3. Assassin's Creed 2
4. (tie) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360)
4. (tie) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Steam, not ours)
4. (tie) FIFA 09
7. New Super Mario Bros.
8. Tatsunoko vs Capcom
9. (tie) Call of Duty World at War
9. (tie) Halo 3: ODST

Brief Links

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

APM's Future Tense podcast talks to a Dante scholar about the video game Dante's Inferno: "Dante scholar considers new video game based on the Inferno."

Top Games - Week of Feb 8

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

1. FIFA 10
2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
4. NCAA Football 10 (Xbox 360)
5. (tie) Assassin's Creed 2
5. (tie) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PC via Steam, not ours)
7. New Super Mario Bros.
8. (tie) Super Smash Bros. Melee
8. (tie) Tekken 6
10. MAG

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:

1. FIFA 10
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
4. DJ Hero
5. (tie) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
5. (tie) Mario Kart DoubleDash
7. (tie) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Steam, not ours)
7. (tie) New Super Mario Bros.
9. (tie) Call of Duty World at War
9. (tie) Darksiders

Top Games - Week of Jan 25

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

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Call of Duty World at War
3. FIFA 09
4. (tie) FIFA 08
4. (tie) FIFA 10
4. (tie) Halo 3
4. (tie) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
8. (tie) DJ Hero
8. (tie) Gunstar Heroes
8. (tie) Super Mario World