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• Computers: Hardware: Historical  (120)
• Computers: History  (401)
• Games: History  (3)
• Games: Video Games: Console Platforms: Classic  (48)

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Arcade-History.com - Arcade video games, slot machines, pinball database, where you can find more than 5000 games featuring pictures..

Armchair Arcade - Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication..

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..

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..

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..

Chronology of Video Game Systems - Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines..

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..

Classic BASIC Games - Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979..

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..

Classic Home Video Games Museum - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987..

Classic Retro Games - Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports..

Classic Videogame Station Odyssey - Japanese videogame history including cartoons..

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..

crates and barrels - This is about crates and barrels in videogames..

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..

Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - A site about various memorabilia around video games..

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..

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..

Flat Batteries - Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture..

Flynn's Classic Games - A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them..

Game Collectors Finland - Suomen tietokonepelien, videopelien, konsolipelien ja peliautomaattien keräilijöiden mekka..

Game Downloads - Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games..

Game Grandpas - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2..

GameArchive.net - The Library of past and present computer and video games..

1980 games - Old online video and arcade games for free - Old video and arcade games online for free. Pacman, Mario Bros Donkey kong, Space Invaders, Frogger and more. Emulators on site..

Games Implosion - Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair..

GameSpot: History of Video Games - A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001..

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..

Gotcha - Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables..

Great Game Database - Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic..

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..

Halcyon Days - Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers.

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..

I.C. When - A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games..

Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - A journey through the classic system Intellivision..

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..

JAMMAJUP Coin-op Collector & Enthusiast (NEW DOMAIN) - Classic arcade site..

Lee's PeeknPoke - General arcade and console emulation site..

Link Cable of Time - Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry..

Lucasarts Museum - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games..

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..

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..

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..

Oilzine.com - The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market..

The Old Computer Dot Com - 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..

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..

Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history..

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..

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)..

Retro View - Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games..

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..

RF Generation. The Classic and Modern Video Games Database. - RF Generation is a website that collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360. Our goal is to become the most comprehensive video game database and video game collection tool on the internet..

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..

SPOnG.com - Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs..

The Stairway To Hell - 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..

Supercade - A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon..

The Super-Kaga Computer Museum - Photo gallery of consoles, arcade games and computers. Reviews of movies that feature computers and computer games. Downloadable retro gaming wallpaper..

TheCan.Org - Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release..

Twin Galaxies - Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s..

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..

The Video Game Museum - An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews..

Video Games - A personal story of the early video game history..

Video Games 101 - Video Games - Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider..

Videotopia - Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media..

Vintage computer games and hardware - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware..

Visionnet - Retrogaming - Online gaming library of all common consoles, handhelds and homecomputers..

VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems - A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers..

Zzapback: The Future is Retro - Information about classic games and computer magazines. Focus on Newsfield title: Zzap!64..