 Game Grandpas - http://ryangenno.tripod.com/ Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2. |
 GameSpot: History of Video Games - http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/ A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001. |
 Games Implosion - http://www.freewebs.com/gamesimplosion/ Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Gotcha - http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/ Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables. |
 Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/ A site about various memorabilia around video games. |
 Chronology of Video Game Systems - http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/ Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines. |
 Halcyon Days - http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/ Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers |
 Armchair Arcade - http://www.armchairarcade.com/ Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication. |
 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. |
 Twin Galaxies - http://www.twingalaxies.com Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s. |
 Great Game Database - http://www.ggdb.com/ Arcade and video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic. |
 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. |
 Phosphor Dot Fossils - http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ Classic arcade video game history. |
 Supercade - http://www.supercade.com/ A book that illustrates and documents the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon. |
 VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems - http://vogons.zetafleet.com/ A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers. |
 Pirate's Portal - http://pirates.emucamp.com/ A games encyclopedia. Contains screen shots and games for many computers (including the VIC-20) sorted by title, country, genre, year, language and person. |
 Vintage computer games and hardware - http://www.stellatron.com/ Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware. |
 Flat Batteries - http://www.flatbatteries.com/ Promotes video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of culture. |
 The Armchair Empire - http://www.armchairempire.com/classic_gaming.htm Find discussion about a number of classic video games from a wide range of games. |
 The Old Computer Dot Com - http://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. |
 Game Downloads - http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/ Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games. |
 The Super-Kaga Computer Museum - http://computermuseum.bigpondhosting.com/ Photo gallery of consoles, arcade games and computers. Reviews of movies that feature computers and computer games. Downloadable retro gaming wallpaper. |
 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. |
 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. |
 The Dot Eaters: Videogame History 101 - http://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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Visionnet - Retrogaming - http://www.visionnet.nl/ Online gaming library of all common consoles, handhelds and homecomputers. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - http://www.intellivisionlives.com/ A journey through the classic system Intellivision. |
 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. |
 Gallery of Undiscovered Entities - http://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. |
 Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games. |
 Game Collectors Finland - http://www.gamecollectors.info Suomen tietokonepelien, videopelien, konsolipelien ja peliautomaattien keräilijöiden mekka. |
 Guinness Book Coin-Op High Scores 1986-1997 - http://spyhunter007.com Contains the Guinness Book Coin Operated Video Game High Scores and behind the scenes information behind these scores. |
 Arcade-History - http://www.arcade-history.com A coin-operated game database with more than 25,000 machines featuring pictures and information. |
 The Video Game Museum - http://www.vgmuseum.com/ An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews. |
 RF Generation - http://www.rfgeneration.com Collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360. |
 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. |
 Lee's PeeknPoke - http://peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm General arcade and console emulation site. |
 Zzapback: The Future is Retro - http://www.zzapback.com Information about classic games and computer magazines. Focus on Newsfield title: Zzap!64. |
 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 BASIC Games - http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979. |
 Classic Home Video Games Museum - http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/ Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987. |
 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). |
 Dragon's Lair - http://www.dragonslairfans.com/ Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books. |
 Retro Games Blog - http://www.retrogamesblog.co.uk A website dedicated to retro and vintage computer games and their influence on modern day computer gaming. |
 Crates and barrels - http://www.arminbwagner.com/crates_and_barrels/ This is about crates and barrels in videogames. |
 1980 games - Old online video and arcade games for free - http://www.1980-games.com/us/ Old video and arcade games online for free. Pacman, Mario Bros Donkey kong, Space Invaders, and Frogger. Emulators on site. |
 Bubble Bobble HQ - http://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. |
 The making of the Camel Trophy Videogame - http://www.rescogita.com/cvg/cvgfeature_en_01.php A behind-the-scenes story of the making of the "Camel Trophy Video game" for the ZX Spectrum in 1985. |
 Classic Videogame Station Odyssey - http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/ Japanese videogame history including cartoons. |
 The Lost Patrol Webshrine - http://thelostpatrol.knagge.com/ Website zu Ocean Software`s Klassiker von 1990 für Amiga und AtariST. |
 Video Games 101 - Video Games - http://www.videogames101.net Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider. |
 Computerspiele Museum - http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/ German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage. |
 Classic Retro Games - http://www.classic-retro-games.com Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports. |