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34,428 Listings - DR (10/10)34,428 Listings - DR (10/10) Game Grandpas - http://ryangenno.tripod.com/
Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
3,323 Listings - DR (9/10)3,323 Listings - DR (9/10) GameSpot: History of Video Games - http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/
A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001.
6,097 Listings - DR (9/10)6,097 Listings - DR (9/10) Games Implosion - http://www.freewebs.com/gamesimplosion/
Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair.
128 Listings - DR (8/10)128 Listings - DR (8/10) 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.
On Target - DR (8/10)On Target - DR (8/10) SPOnG.com - http://spong.com/
Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
29 Listings - DR (8/10)29 Listings - DR (8/10) 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.
119 Listings - DR (7/10)119 Listings - DR (7/10) 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.
119 Listings - DR (7/10)119 Listings - DR (7/10) Gotcha - http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/
Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
7 Listings - DR (7/10)7 Listings - DR (7/10) Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/
A site about various memorabilia around video games.
141 Listings - DR (7/10)141 Listings - DR (7/10) 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.
6 Listings - DR (7/10)6 Listings - DR (7/10) Halcyon Days - http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/
Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
On Target - DR (7/10)On Target - DR (7/10) Armchair Arcade - http://www.armchairarcade.com/
Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
11 Listings - DR (6/10)11 Listings - DR (6/10) 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.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Twin Galaxies - http://www.twingalaxies.com
Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Great Game Database - http://www.ggdb.com/
Arcade and video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
11 Listings - DR (6/10)11 Listings - DR (6/10) 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.
19 Listings - DR (6/10)19 Listings - DR (6/10) Phosphor Dot Fossils - http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/
Classic arcade video game history.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Supercade - http://www.supercade.com/
A book that illustrates and documents the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems - http://vogons.zetafleet.com/
A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers.
19 Listings - DR (6/10)19 Listings - DR (6/10) 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.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Vintage computer games and hardware - http://www.stellatron.com/
Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Flat Batteries - http://www.flatbatteries.com/
Promotes video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of culture.
298 Listings - DR (6/10)298 Listings - DR (6/10) 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.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) 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.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Game Downloads - http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/
Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games.
34 Listings - DR (5/10)34 Listings - DR (5/10) 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.
6 Listings - DR (5/10)6 Listings - DR (5/10) 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.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) 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.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) 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.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) 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.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) 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.
1,274 Listings - DR (5/10)1,274 Listings - DR (5/10) 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.
36 Listings - DR (5/10)36 Listings - DR (5/10) Retro View - http://www.mameworld.net/retroview/
Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Visionnet - Retrogaming - http://www.visionnet.nl/
Online gaming library of all common consoles, handhelds and homecomputers.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
1,788 Listings - DR (4/10)1,788 Listings - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - http://www.intellivisionlives.com/
A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Lucasarts Museum - http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org
Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Game Collectors Finland - http://www.gamecollectors.info
Suomen tietokonepelien, videopelien, konsolipelien ja peliautomaattien keräilijöiden mekka.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) Arcade-History - http://www.arcade-history.com
A coin-operated game database with more than 25,000 machines featuring pictures and information.
11 Listings - DR (3/10)11 Listings - DR (3/10) The Video Game Museum - http://www.vgmuseum.com/
An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) RF Generation - http://www.rfgeneration.com
Collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360.
183 Listings - DR (3/10)183 Listings - DR (3/10) 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.
59 Listings - DR (3/10)59 Listings - DR (3/10) Lee's PeeknPoke - http://peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm
General arcade and console emulation site.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Zzapback: The Future is Retro - http://www.zzapback.com
Information about classic games and computer magazines. Focus on Newsfield title: Zzap!64.
9 Listings - DR (2/10)9 Listings - DR (2/10) 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.
On Target - DR (2/10)On Target - DR (2/10) Classic BASIC Games - http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm
Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
On Target - DR (2/10)On Target - DR (2/10) Classic Home Video Games Museum - http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/
Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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).
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Dragon's Lair - http://www.dragonslairfans.com/
Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Crates and barrels - http://www.arminbwagner.com/crates_and_barrels/
This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.
707 Listings - DR (0/10)707 Listings - DR (0/10) Classic Videogame Station Odyssey - http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/
Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) The Lost Patrol Webshrine - http://thelostpatrol.knagge.com/
Website zu Ocean Software`s Klassiker von 1990 für Amiga und AtariST.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Video Games 101 - Video Games - http://www.videogames101.net
Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Computerspiele Museum - http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Classic Retro Games - http://www.classic-retro-games.com
Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.

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