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Open Directory: Games: Video Games: History
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 | Arcade-History www.arcade-history.com
A coin-operated game database with more than 25,000 machines featuring pictures and information. |
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| Armchair Arcade www.armchairarcade.com
Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication. |
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| The Armchair Empire www.armchairempire.com/classic_gaming.htm
Find discussion about a number of classic video games from a wide range of games. |
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| Brookhaven 1958 Video Game 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. |
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| Bubble Bobble HQ bubblebobblehq.110mb.com
A site dedicated to Taito's Bubble Bobble series of games. Includes a media collection and detailed game guides showing all the games secrets. |
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| Chronology of Video Game Systems www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame
Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines. |
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| Classic Arcade Gaming 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. |
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| Classic BASIC Games awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm
Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979. |
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| Classic Retro Games www.classic-retro-games.com
Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports. |
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| Computer Gaming World Museum 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. |
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| Computerspiele Museum www.computerspielemuseum.de
German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage. |
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| Crates and barrels www.arminbwagner.com/crates_and_barrels
This is about crates and barrels in videogames. |
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| culturalstudies behind the videogame 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. |
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| The Dot Eaters: Videogame History 101 www.thedoteaters.com
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. |
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| Dragon's Lair www.dragonslairfans.com
Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books. |
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| Flat Batteries www.flatbatteries.com
Promotes video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of culture. |
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| Gallery of Undiscovered Entities gue.vintagegaming.org
The GUE is a repository of information, packaging pictures, and disk images of lesser-known computer games of the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
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| Game Collectors Finland www.gamecollectors.info
Suomen tietokonepelien, videopelien, konsolipelien ja peliautomaattien keräilijöiden mekka. |
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| Game Downloads free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware
Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games. |
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| Game Grandpas ryangenno.tripod.com
Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2. |
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| Games Implosion www.freewebs.com/gamesimplosion
Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair. |
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| Gotcha gotcha.classicgaming.gamespy.com
Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables. |
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| Great Game Database www.ggdb.com
Arcade and video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic. |
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| Halcyon Days www.dadgum.com/halcyon
Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers |
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| Jammajup 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. |
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| Lee's PeeknPoke peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm
General arcade and console emulation site. |
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| Lucasarts Museum lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games. |
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| MobyGames 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. |
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| NintendoLand 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. |
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| Oilzine.com www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49
The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market. |
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| The Old Computer Dot Com www.theoldcomputer.com
Includes forums, a museum, ROMs, retro shop, magazines, libraries, news, and a hall of fame. Emulators listed are Atari, Nintendo, C64, Colecovision, Amiga, Spectrum, Plus4, Vic20, Vectrex, MSX, Bios, and Sega Master System. |
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| Pong to Pacman 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. |
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| Retro Experience 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). |
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| Retro Games Blog www.retrogamesblog.co.uk
A website dedicated to retro and vintage computer games and their influence on modern day computer gaming. |
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| Retro View www.mameworld.net/retroview
Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games. |
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| RetroBase.de - Videogame preservation since Feb. 2002 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. |
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| RF Generation www.rfgeneration.com
Collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360. |
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| Screens Edge 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. |
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| SPOnG.com spong.com
Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs. |
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| The Stairway To Hell 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. |
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| Supercade www.supercade.com
A book that illustrates and documents the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon. |
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| The Super-Kaga Computer Museum computermuseum.bigpondhosting.com
Photo gallery of consoles, arcade games and computers. Reviews of movies that feature computers and computer games. Downloadable retro gaming wallpaper. |
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| TheCan.Org thecan.org
Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release. |
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| Twin Galaxies www.twingalaxies.com
Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s. |
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| The Video Game Museum www.vgmuseum.com
An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews. |
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