Posts tagged with cvga

The month of May proved to be quite a hit for soccer games as well as Smash, which is playable anytime we're open, but only during the Spring and Summer terms.

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Here is our list of games most-played in the archive over the course of the semester. Our soccer games were the clear winners, with a few old favorites making the list as well. FIFA 14 had over twice as many checkouts as anything else on the list.

Here is our list of most popular games played in the archive during March. Trigger Happy Havoc quickly rose in the ranks, and a variety of Nintendo games made a satisfying appearance as the semester continues. FIFA was so popular that we started getting requests for FIFA 13 and 12 again, also reflected in the list.

Here are the most popular games for the month of February. Xbox One is still on the list, but the Playstation 4 hasn't quite gained the popularity to bring it to the top, probably because we just got it.It will be interesting to see how Nintendo's recent news about discontinuing online play for the Wii and DS will affect the leaderboard, if at all.

It's been a busy month. Even bad weather and classes being canceled couldn't keep people from hanging out in the archive and getting their gaming fix. Here are the games that were most popular over the course of last month.

To top off the year, we have our list of most popular games played during the month of December. Our newer games and systems topped the list, with Mariokart claiming its stake for the Nintendo team.

Here are our most popular games for the month of November. Smash made it back into the top three, and a couple of our new games made the list. With the general popularity of the PS3 over the XBox 360 recently, I'm somewhat surprised there aren't more PS3 games on the list.

We held a party and Smash tournament on Saturday to celebrate our fifth anniversary of being open, as well as to highlight International Games Day @ Your Library. Both were well-attended, and the cupcakes predictably disappeared pretty quickly. As promised, we'll post the winners of the Smash tournament here for official bragging rights. Congratulations to our top five winners, who won Amazon gift cards, and thanks to everyone who attended!

Inside an Intellivision game consoleGet a real inside look at the gaming systems housed in the Computer & Video Game Archive in "CVGA Disassembled," a new online exhibit created to help celebrate the CVGA's 5th Anniversary this week.We've opened up some of our favorite game consoles of yesteryear to show off the guts and inside circuitry, as well as loving shots of the exteriors. In addition, visitors to the exhibit will learn about the history of these gaming systems as they step through the different generations of video games.The exhibit is curated by CVGA manager Val Waldron, and was created with the assistance of current and former Learning & Teaching University Library Associates Alex Purcell, Adam Jazairi, and Maria Seiferle-Valencia."CVGA Disassembled" can be viewed online as part of the MLibrary Online Exhibits at http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/cvga-disassembled