{"id":1667,"date":"2017-02-06T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:37","slug":"game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/06\/game-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Game on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1669\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"wp-image-1669 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg\" alt=\"Bunch of guys sitting around playing video games.\" width=\"262\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg 262w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Dave Carter, CVGA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U-M\u00a0collects video games. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/tech\/2017\/02\/03\/university-michigan-video-game-cache\/97393684\/\">Lots of them<\/a>. The university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiM2qPN7IPSAhXLy4MKHbHDCXMQFggdMAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.umich.edu%2Fcomputer-video-game-archive&amp;usg=AFQjCNFNKCQh-WDUPKe6YJLrzqSEg5FLkw&amp;sig2=T95o-CxE-l_glzeJclJapg\">Computer and Video Game Archive<\/a> features more than 7,000 titles\u2014everything from time-honored favorites such as \u201cPac-Man\u201d and \u201cFrogger\u201d to newer fare, including \u201cCall of Duty\u201d and \u201cHalo\u201d\u2014on dozens of gaming systems. Now in its 10th year, the CVGA collects video games in the same way that other archives pursue books, journals or historical artifacts. \u201cIt\u2019s important to have an archive like this, because games are part of our culture,\u201d said <strong>Dave Carter<\/strong>, who got it up and running in 2008. Carter, who serves as a reference services librarian and the CVGA\u2019s archivist, previously was a lecturer at the\u00a0School of Information and is trained as an electrical engineer, specializing in optics and radio waves. He\u2019s also a lifelong video game fan, having made frequent use of an Atari 2600 as a kid. \u201cIf you\u2019d told 12-year-old me that this would be part of my job growing up, I\u2019d think that was pretty cool,\u201d he said with a smile. The archive is open to anyone\u2014students and members of the public alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-M\u00a0collects video games. Lots of them. The university\u2019s Computer and Video Game Archive features more than 7,000 titles\u2014everything from time-honored favorites such as \u201cPac-Man\u201d and \u201cFrogger\u201d to newer fare, including \u201cCall of Duty\u201d and \u201cHalo\u201d\u2014on dozens of gaming systems. Now in its 10th year, the CVGA collects video games in the same way that other archives pursue books,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/06\/game-on\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-gaming"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA-150x113.jpg",150,113,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVGA.jpg",262,197,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"U-M\u00a0collects video games. Lots of them. The university\u2019s Computer and Video Game Archive features more than 7,000 titles\u2014everything from time-honored favorites such as \u201cPac-Man\u201d and \u201cFrogger\u201d to newer fare, including \u201cCall of Duty\u201d and \u201cHalo\u201d\u2014on dozens of gaming systems. Now in its 10th year, the CVGA collects video games in the same way that other&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}