The French National Library classifies video games as a "cultural heritage"

The library houses about 2,000 video games, along with old books, films and documents.

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The French National Library in Paris, in addition to old books, films and audio documents, owns one of the largest collections of video games, with about 2,000 of them, such as "Juke Boxes", "Game Boy" and "Magnavox Odyssey", carefully preserved and classified as a "cultural heritage". » in every sense of the word.

Those interested in playing these video games should visit one of the four towers, each 79 meters high and comprising 22 floors, in the François Mitterrand Library, southwest of Paris.

In the middle of the two phonographs and “Juke Box”, about 10 devices to play video games that reflect the history of these games were displayed inside two facades, including “Game Boy” from “Nintendo”, “Atari Linux”, “Sega Saturn” and the rare “Magnavox Odyssey” It was introduced to the US market in 1972.

“We keep these video game players in order to make future researchers who will appear in 10 years, even hundreds of years, understand how we played these video games and what equipment was used while playing,” says Laurent Dublois, head of the multimedia department at the French National Library.

He added, "The library's administrators consider video games to be of no less importance than the historical documents displayed in them, and they give them the same attention because they represent a cultural heritage in every sense of the word."

In one of the lower levels in the library are thousands of games deposited in dark storage rooms, where the temperature is fixed at 19 degrees Celsius, in addition to being stored in a way that protects them from moisture.

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