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A Brief History of Home Video Games - The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996.
Arcade Timewarp - classic arcade games, video games, arcade machines - Site dedicated to classic arcade systems.
Brookhaven 1958 Video Game - 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.
Classic Arcade Gaming - Classic Arcade Gaming chronicles the history of the golden age of coin-op video gaming including the games, players, contests, and scores.
Classic BASIC Games - Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
Classic Gaming: The History of Computer Gaming Part 1 - Part one of this multi-part history features William Higinbotham who created the first game: Tennis for 2. With photographs and audio clip.
Classic Home Video Games Museum - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
Classic Videogame Station Odyssey - Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - A site about various memorabilia around video games.
Fire-Button - A community for all computer and videogamers. Includes game information, screenshots and cover scans for over 50 different platforms. Rate, review and add comments in the forum or visit the web directory.
Flat Batteries - Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
Game Grandpas - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
GameSpot: History of Video Games - A history of personal video games from 1889 to present.
Gaming in the Media World - 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.
Gotcha - Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
Great Game Database - Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
Halcyon Days - Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
History of Home Video Games - A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance. Includes links to relevant material.
I.C. When - A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
Jammajup - Coin-op collection based in the UK. PLUS repairlogs,usefull infomation, my personal high scores 1980-today, videogame poll`s and jammajup quiz and a mass of links.
Lucasarts Museum - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
Mintfresh's Classic Games Site - Dedicated to the history of classic computer and console games. Includes a timeline charting important events up to the current period.
MobyGames - 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.
NintendoLand - 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.
Oilzine.com - The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
Old Computer Magazine Website - 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.
Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history.
Pirates Portal: The Games Encyclopaedia - Provides an overview of old platform video and computer games. Focusing on 8 bit machines including: screenshots, online music, covers, highscores, credits, and short reviews.
Playable Classic Games - Features downloadable classic games.
Pong to Pacman - 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.
Retro Console - 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 - Play Retro Games, also have a look at the Atari St and Sega Megadrive Games Archives (including screenshots, reviews and box cover art).
Retro View - Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
RetroBase.de - Videogame preservation since Feb. 2002 - 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.
Roald E. Peterson III - A Web site devoted to the old, but classic turn-based space empire strategy game, Anacreon Reconstruction 4021 and other classic retro games.
Screens Edge - 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 : The Internet Computer Games - A catalogue of over 55,000 games on around 70 platforms. Containing news, screenshots, packaging, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs & walkthroughs.
Supercade - A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
The Dot Eaters: Videogame History 101 - 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 Dragon's Lair / Space Ace Computer Games Collection - Complete Dragon's Lair & Space Ace games collection, including all items:music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
The Old Computer Dot 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.
The Stairway To Hell - 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.
The Video Game Museum - An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
TheCan.Org - Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
Video Game Database - 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.
Video Game Gurus - Where video game collectors come to show off. Information on classic and modern systems, including a timeline of video games.
Video Games - A personal story of the early video game history.
Videotopia - Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
Vintage computer games and hardware - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
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