news.com.com — Stanford University recently received a windfall of over 25,000 video games and now they are going through the arduous task of archiving them all. The games originally belonged to former Stanford student Steven Cabernetti who passed away recently, leaving behind a staggeringly huge collection, most still in their original shrink wrap.
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kavokApr 8, 2007
Copying the data from the floppy/disc and storing it, as a guess.
scabbersApr 8, 2007
Start on the games that were pre CD-rom... it's the bitrot of rom chips and floppies that could lose some games to oblivion.
curufirApr 8, 2007
"#5 SimCity (1989)SimCity spawned the "god game" genre... "Bulls**t. Populous spawned the "god game" genre.It's fairly easy to see the difference, since only one of these games actually has you playing as a god.Screw Stanford and their revisionist history :)
imustbeemoApr 9, 2007
I think I speak for every Digg user when I say this:No link to torrent? Buried!
shinynewApr 9, 2007
Hah. learn to reply.
ckedgeApr 9, 2007
Omg. Populous. Now I've GOT to install VMWare or an emulator and go back in time and play this game again!
ggkoApr 9, 2007
>Not sure why he got so many, I mean he wasnt playing them...Why collect stamps if you're not going to lick them?
necrosexyApr 9, 2007
To preserve them from morons like you who would sell the collection for a paltry price.
tycho7Apr 10, 2007
What's with Stanford and archiving? First proteins, and now games? What's next?