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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.
http://www.geekcomix.com/vgh/ |
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Armchair Arcade - Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
http://www.armchairarcade.com/ |
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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.
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html |
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ButtonBashers - 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.
http://www.buttonbashers.net |
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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.
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/ |
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Classic BASIC Games - Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm |
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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.
http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/computergaminghistory/ |
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Classic Home Video Games Museum - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/ |
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Classic Retro Games - Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.
http://www.classic-retro-games.com |
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Comcamel.com - The hump of Empire Earth - Comcamel.com provides information, news, images and strategies for Empire Earth (2), the best RTS game around.
http://www.compair.buildtolearn.net/camel/ |
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Computer Gaming World Museum - 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.
http://cgw.vintagegaming.org |
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Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - A site about various memorabilia around video games.
http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/ |
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Flat Batteries - Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
http://www.flatbatteries.com |
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Flynn's Classic Games - A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them.
http://studentwebs.winona.edu/awflynn2605/ |
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Game Grandpas - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
http://ryangenno.tripod.com/ |
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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.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/youngsteve/SystemFrames.htm |
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Gotcha - Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/ |
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Great Game Database - Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
http://www.ggdb.com/ |
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Guinness Book Coin-Op High Scores 1986-1997 - Contains the Guinness Book Coin Operated Video Game High Scores and behind the scenes information behind these scores.
http://spyhunter007.com |
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Halcyon Days - Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/ |
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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.
http://www.videogames.org/html/ |
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I.C. When - A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
http://www.icwhen.com/ |
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Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/ |
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Jammajup - Coin-op collection based in the UK. PLUS repairlogs, useful information, author's personal high scores since 1980, videogame polls, jammajup quiz, and links.
http://www.jammajup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk |
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Lee's PeeknPoke - General arcade and console emulation site.
http://peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm |
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Link Cable of Time - Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry.
http://www.linkcableoftime.com |
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Lucasarts Museum - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org |
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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.
http://www.mintfresh.0catch.com/ |
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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.
http://mobygames.com/ |
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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.
http://www.nintendoland.com |
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Oilzine.com - The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
http://www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49 |
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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.
http://www.old-computer-mags.co.uk/ |
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Otsuge - Video Game History - The world's most advanced list of pc and console video games,including the history of every game in every country.
http://www.themsg.com |
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Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history.
http://www.theLogBook.com/phosphor/ |
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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.
http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html |
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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.
http://www.retroconsole.com |
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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).
http://www.retro-experience.co.uk |
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Retro View - Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
http://www.mameworld.net/retroview/ |
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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.
http://www.retrobase.de |
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SPOnG.com - Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
http://spong.com/ |
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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.
http://www.zxscreens.i12.com/zxscreens/ |
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Supercade - A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
http://www.supercade.com/ |
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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.
http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/ |
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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.
http://users.skynet.be/nuno |
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The Video Game Museum - An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/ |
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TheCan.Org - Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
http://thecan.org/ |
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Twin Galaxies - Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s.
http://www.twingalaxies.com |
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VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems - A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers.
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/ |
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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.
http://www.videogamedb.com/ |
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Video Games - A personal story of the early video game history.
http://www.virtualgaz.co.uk/videogamespage.htm |
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Vintage computer games and hardware - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
http://www.stellatron.com/ |
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crates and barrels - This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
http://medien.akbild.ac.at/armin/crates_and_barrels/ |
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culturalstudies behind the videogame - The story of the videogames as a cultural media, the analysis of the influence between the videogame, the cinema and the social interaction.
http://culturavg.altervista.org/ |
