Video games in the library

I came across an article about university libraries across the country installing video game labs in order to allow students to do research and experience retro games.  They seem to be primarily targeting computer science and programming majors but I wouldn't be surprised to see sociology or communication majors (heck, I wrote a research paper on early online text based games) doing some research in the labs as well.  The goal is to provide education and opportunities to try out games on a variety of platforms that have developed over the last 40 odd years.  The really interesting part was the discussion that was spawned in the wake of the article about whether or not this was a good use of the university's funds.  People got pretty fired up about the whole thing.  Here's the link if you're interested:

http://chronicle.com/article/Video-Game-Rooms-Become-the/127229/