U. of Mich. video game cache serves as an archive, at play

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan collects video games. The Ann Arbor university’s Computer and Video Game Archive features over 7,000 titles — everything from time-honored favorites such as “Pac-Man” and “Frogger” to newer fare, including “Call of Duty” and “Halo"— on dozens of gaming systems. “It’s important to have an archive like this, because games are part of our culture,” said Dave Carter, who got it up and running in 2008. Carter said he can’t speak about what other video game archives around the U.S. are doing, but that “we were certainly one of the first that opened our doors to allow people to come in and use the game on their own.” People like Jeremy Bolen. “It’s kind of awesome that the video game archive here just has pretty much anything you can think of,” Bolen said.