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 shrinkwrap. In the end, the games were gifted to the Stanford Library for use in their history of science and technology collections. CNET has a video up featuring an interview with Stanford archivist Henry Lowood talking about the importance of game preservation not only for the games themselves but for their packaging and manuals as well.

It's good to know that there are folks out there keeping track of the rich history of video games and making sure that collections such as this one won't end up in the local dump. Now if I can just figure out how to break in there. Flynn De Marco

Video: More than 25,000 video games, and counting [CNET News - Thanks, RG]

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