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» Arcade-History - A coin-operated game database with more than 25,000 machines featuring pictures and information.

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

» The Armchair Empire - Find discussion about a number of classic video games from a wide range of games.

» 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.

» Bubble Bobble HQ - A site dedicated to Taito's Bubble Bobble series of games. Includes a media collection and detailed game guides showing all the games secrets.

» 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.

» Computerspiele Museum - German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage.

» 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.

» Dragon's Lair - Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including 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.

» Gallery of Undiscovered Entities - The GUE is a repository of information, packaging pictures, and disk images of lesser-known computer games of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

» 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.

» Gameconsoles.com - uniting videogame players, collectors and homebrew creators. - Our mission is to unite video game players, collectors and homebrew creators, to educate and preserve the game console industry.

» 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, and Frogger. 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.

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

» Great Game Database - Arcade and 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.

» 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.

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

» The Lost Patrol Webshrine - Website zu Ocean Software`s Klassiker von 1990 für Amiga und AtariST.

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

» The making of the Camel Trophy Videogame - A behind-the-scenes story of the making of the "Camel Trophy Video game" for the ZX Spectrum in 1985.

» 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 - 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.

» Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history.

» Pirate's Portal - A games encyclopedia. Contains screen shots and games for many computers (including the VIC-20) sorted by title, country, genre, year, language and person.

» 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 Games Blog - A website dedicated to retro and vintage computer games and their influence on modern day computer gaming.

» 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 - Collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360.

» 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 illustrates and documents 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.

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

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

» 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.

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