Games, Video Games, History
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- Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
- 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.
- A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
- A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance. Includes links to relevant material.
- Video game reviews, PC hardware reviews and more! The coolest stuff around! Retro week and more!
- Dedicated to the history of classic computer and console games. Includes a timeline charting important events up to the current period.
- Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
- 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.
- Site dedicated to classic arcade systems.
- A personal story of the early video game history.
- Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
- 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.
- An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
- Play Retro Games, also have a look at the Atari St and Sega Megadrive Games Archives (including screenshots, reviews and box cover art).
- 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 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.
- A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
- Comcamel.com provides information, news, images and strategies for Empire Earth (2), the best RTS game around.
- Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
- 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.
- Coin-op collection based in the UK. PLUS repairlogs, useful information, author's personal high scores since 1980, videogame polls, jammajup quiz, and links.
- Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
- A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
- Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
- Part one of this multi-part history features William Higinbotham who created the first game: Tennis for 2. With photographs and audio clip.
- Complete Dragon's Lair & Space Ace games collection, including all items:music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
- The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
- The story of the videogames as a cultural media, the analysis of the influence between the videogame, the cinema and the social interaction.
- Library of past and present computer and video games.
- Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
- 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.
- Classic arcade video game history.
- A history of personal video games from 1889 to present.
- 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.
- Contains the Guinness Book Coin Operated Video Game High Scores and behind the scenes information behind these scores.
- Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
- Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
- A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers.
- Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
- 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 and modern computer and videogame online publication.
- Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
- 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.
- Classic Arcade Gaming chronicles the history of the golden age of coin-op video gaming including the games, players, contests, and scores.
- 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.
- The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996.
- 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.
- 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.
- Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry.
- The world's most advanced list of pc and console video games,including the history of every game in every country.
- Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
- 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.
- Features downloadable classic games.
- A site about various memorabilia around video games.
- 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.
- Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
- A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them.
- Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
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