- I.C. When - http://www.icwhen.com/
A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
- A Brief History of Home Video Games - http://www.geekcomix.com/vgh/
The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996.
- History of Home Video Games - http://www.videogames.org/html/
A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance. Includes links to relevant material.
- Videotopia - http://www.videotopia.com/
Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
- The Video Game Museum - http://www.vgmuseum.com/
An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
- Pong to Pacman - http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html
Contains information on the creators of such great games like pong and pacman. Covers the history of video games from 1975 through the mid eighties.
- The Dot Eaters: Videogame History 101 - http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/
The history of videogames, from arcade, home consoles and computers. Includes pictures and audio files, as well as text covering the history of major machines and games.
- The Old Computer Dot Com - http://www.theoldcomputer.com/
A site dedicated to all aspects of retro computing and gaming. Museum, emulators, ROMs, retro Shop, magazines, and articles. From Atari 2600, Zenneth, colecovision, amiga, and spectrum.
- Brookhaven 1958 Video Game - http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html
The first video game may have been developed at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958. William Higinbotham designed Tennis for Two for a laboratory visitors day.
- Supercade - http://www.supercade.com/
A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
- TheCan.Org - http://thecan.org/
Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
- Video Games - http://www.virtualgaz.co.uk/videogamespage.htm
A personal story of the early video game history.
- Gotcha - http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/
Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
- Oilzine.com - http://www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49
The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
- Classic Gaming: The History of Computer Gaming Part 1 - http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/computergaminghistory/
Part one of this multi-part history features William Higinbotham who created the first game: Tennis for 2. With photographs and audio clip.
- Screens Edge - http://www.zxscreens.i12.com/zxscreens/
A museum dedicated to preserving pixel artwork from the first 25 years of home computer and video games. Specializes in the 3 main home computer formats of the 1980's: Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC.
- SPOnG.com - http://spong.com/
Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
- Mintfresh's Classic Games Site - http://www.mintfresh.0catch.com/
Dedicated to the history of classic computer and console games. Includes a timeline charting important events up to the current period.
- RetroBase.de - Videogame preservation since Feb. 2002 - http://www.retrobase.de
Covers Atari 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Lynx, ColecoVision, Vectrex, Intellivision, PC-Engine aka Turbo Grafx 16, Super Nintendo (SNES), Sega Game Gear, Mega Drive aka Genesis, SG-1000, Neo Geo and NG.
- Flat Batteries - http://www.flatbatteries.com
Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
- Old Computer Magazine Website - http://www.old-computer-mags.co.uk/
Featuring great magazines from the 80's including: Zzap! 64, Crash, Big K, CandVG, Atari User, Dragon User, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, Personal Computer Games, and Sinclair projects.
- Classic BASIC Games - http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm
Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
- NintendoLand - http://www.nintendoland.com
Contains history of Nintendo and technical specifications about the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Virtual Boy, and Nintendo 64. Also offers reviews, game secrets, online games and message boards.
- MobyGames - http://mobygames.com/
An online database of the PC entertainment software industry's products from 1982 to present. Includes game descriptions, screenshots, boxcovers, reviews, trivia, links and ratings.
- Halcyon Days - http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/
Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
- Retro Console - http://www.retroconsole.com
Retro Console offers a set of video game consoles that are compatible with the classic game consoles of long ago. The first product is a NES compatible system with many advantages over the original system.
- Retro Experience - http://www.retro-experience.co.uk
Play Retro Games, also have a look at the Atari St and Sega Megadrive Games Archives (including screenshots, reviews and box cover art).
- Gaming in the Media World - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/youngsteve/SystemFrames.htm
A review site of game software based around fictional or non-fictional characters in the media world, such as Films, Books, Celebrities, Comics and TV.
- Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
- Classic Arcade Gaming - http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/
Classic Arcade Gaming chronicles the history of the golden age of coin-op video gaming including the games, players, contests, and scores.
- Video Game Database - http://www.videogamedb.com/
Video game database is a searchable database of all games for all systems that is continually being updated by gamers. Features screenshots, reviews, and ratings.
- The Stairway To Hell - http://www.stairwaytohell.com/
Archive of software released for the Acorn range of 8-bit home computers. BBC Micro Games, Acorn Electron games, BBC Micro Emulation and BBC Emulators with reviews, scans, music mp3, mags, instructions and documentation.
- Jammajup - http://www.jammajup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Coin-op collection based in the UK. PLUS repairlogs, useful information, author's personal high scores since 1980, videogame polls, jammajup quiz, and links.
- Retro View - http://www.mameworld.net/retroview/
Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
- Great Game Database - http://www.ggdb.com/
Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
- Game Grandpas - http://ryangenno.tripod.com/
Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
- Computer Gaming World Museum - http://cgw.vintagegaming.org
Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the first 100 issues (1981-1992) of Computer Gaming World magazine, the first magazine devoted exclusively to computer games.
- Flynn's Classic Games - http://studentwebs.winona.edu/awflynn2605/
A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them.
- culturalstudies behind the videogame - http://culturavg.altervista.org/
The story of the videogames as a cultural media, the analysis of the influence between the videogame, the cinema and the social interaction.
- Armchair Arcade - http://www.armchairarcade.com/
Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
- Otsuge - Video Game History - http://www.themsg.com
The world's most advanced list of pc and console video games,including the history of every game in every country.
- ButtonBashers - http://www.buttonbashers.net
A site dedicated to when video games were simple and addictive. Going back as early as Pong, up to the PSX and SEGA Saturn era.
- Comcamel.com - The hump of Empire Earth - http://www.compair.buildtolearn.net/camel/
Comcamel.com provides information, news, images and strategies for Empire Earth (2), the best RTS game around.
- Link Cable of Time - http://www.linkcableoftime.com
Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry.
- Twin Galaxies - http://www.twingalaxies.com
Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s.
- Lee's PeeknPoke - http://peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm
General arcade and console emulation site.
- Classic Retro Games - http://www.classic-retro-games.com
Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.
- crates and barrels - http://medien.akbild.ac.at/armin/crates_and_barrels/
This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
- Game Downloads - http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/
Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games.
- GameArchive.net - http://www.gamearchive.net
The Library of past and present computer and video games.
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