Video games museum give arcade classics extra lives “Quite simply, digital games are a part of contemporary culture,” says Henry Lowood, curator of Stanford University’s History of Science and Technology Collections and Film and Media Collections, in an e-mail interview. “If we care about understanding our culture, we have to care about preserving its history, and games are a part of that history.” (photo by Taylor Weidman)

Video games museum give arcade classics extra lives

“Quite simply, digital games are a part of contemporary culture,” says Henry Lowood, curator of Stanford University’s History of Science and Technology Collections and Film and Media Collections, in an e-mail interview. “If we care about understanding our culture, we have to care about preserving its history, and games are a part of that history.”

(photo by Taylor Weidman)