When it comes to games, Ken McAllister and
Judd Ruggill don’t play around.
The two University of Arizona humanities
professors have spent the past two decades
quietly assembling what is probably the world’s
largest archive devoted to the study of video
games and game culture.
The Learning Games Initiative Research Archive
now contains more than a quarter of a million
items, including at least 15,000 individual
games, 200 game systems and thousands of
documents, books, promotional materials and
other artifacts from the game industry’s ever-
expanding universe.
The catalog runs the gamut, from a 1948 patent
for the earliest “cathode ray tube amusement
device” to the latest Playstation console.
UNIVERSITY OF
ARIZONA ARCHIVE
DEVOTED TO
VIDEO GAMES
STUDY