Posts by David S Carter

Today I welcome three new contributors to Eaten by a Grue. Val Waldron is the manager of the Computer & Video Game Archive, and Doug Carmichael & Sarah Raezler are our two student workers. Val, Doug & Sarah will be posting on topics relating to the archive, offering their unique perspectives on what it is like to work in one of the few academic game archives in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The Jay is Games Website has published their list of the Best of 2009 Casual Games. I'm already obsessed with the #1 Flash Puzzle Game, Continuity...