Also check out this page: http://www.nationalvideogamearchive.org/

The interesting thing is that this can be the real entrance for retro games in the academic world, but I'm a bit confused that they've started a national archive. Imo it would make more sense to organise it on an European level. On the other hand it's an UK-thing not to have to much (visible) European integration and maybe I underestimate the significance of game development in the UK and it's importance to the history of video games? Some more questions can be: Do we need national video-game archives in every European country? Or only in the big ones? And what should be collected/preserved in this archives?

Would be interesting to hear some opinions about that.

Dieter said:

I think manopac could tell us a lot here. He works on preservation of video games for the TU in Vienna

Sounds interesting! Manopac what exactly are you doing at the TU?

computerspielemuseum is from a friend of us - andi lange - very cool exhibition! they have more than 30 working machines in their collection! they also did pong mythos and they had ralph baer showing the odyssey to the public!