History

Arcade-History - A coin-operated game database with more than 20,000 machines featuring pictures and information.
www.arcade-history.com

Armchair Arcade - Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
www.armchairarcade.com/

The Armchair Empire - Find discussion about a number of classic video games from a wide range of games.
www.armchairempire.com/classic_gaming.htm

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.
www.geekcomix.com/vgh/

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.
www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html

Bubble Bobble HQ - A site dedicated to Taito's Bubble Bobble series of games. Includes an media collection and detailed game guides showing all the games secrets.
bubblebobblehq.110mb.com

Chronology of Video Game Systems - Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines.
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/

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.
www.classicarcadegaming.com/

Classic BASIC Games - Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm

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.
www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/computergaminghistory/

Classic Home Video Games Museum - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
gamesmuseum.h-body.org/

Classic Retro Games - Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.
www.classic-retro-games.com

Classic Videogame Station Odyssey - Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/

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.
cgw.vintagegaming.org

Computerspiele Museum - German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage.
www.computerspielemuseum.de/

crates and barrels - This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
www.arminbwagner.com/crates_and_barrels/

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.
culturavg.altervista.org/

Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - A site about various memorabilia around video games.
www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/

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.
www.thedoteaters.com

Dragon's Lair - Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
www.dragonslairfans.com/

Flat Batteries - Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
www.flatbatteries.dsl.pipex.com/

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.
gue.vintagegaming.org

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

Game Downloads - Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games.
free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/

Game Grandpas - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
ryangenno.tripod.com/

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.
www.gameconsoles.com

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.
www.1980-games.com/us/

Games Implosion - Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair.
www.freewebs.com/gamesimplosion/

GameSpot: History of Video Games - A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001.
gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/

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

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

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.
spyhunter007.com

Halcyon Days - Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
www.dadgum.com/halcyon/

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.
www.videogames.org/html/

Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
www.intellivisionlives.com/

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.
www.jammajup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Lee's PeeknPoke - General arcade and console emulation site.
peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm

The Lost Patrol Webshrine - Website zu Ocean Software`s Klassiker von 1990 für Amiga und AtariST.
thelostpatrol.knagge.com/

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

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.
www.rescogita.com/cvg/cvgfeature_en_01.php

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.
mobygames.com/

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.
www.nintendoland.com

Oilzine.com - The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49

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.
www.theoldcomputer.com/

Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history.
www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/

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.
pirates.emucamp.com/

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.
www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html

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).
www.retro-experience.co.uk

Retro Games Blog - A website dedicated to retro and vintage computer games and their influence on modern day computer gaming.
www.retrogamesblog.co.uk

Retro View - Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
www.mameworld.net/retroview/

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.
www.retrobase.de

RF Generation - Collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360.
www.rfgeneration.com

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.
www.zxscreens.i12.com/zxscreens/

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

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.
www.stairwaytohell.com/

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

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.
computermuseum.bigpondhosting.com/

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

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

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

Video Games 101 - Video Games - Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider.
www.videogames101.net

Vintage computer games and hardware - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
www.stellatron.com/

Visionnet - Retrogaming - Online gaming library of all common consoles, handhelds and homecomputers.
www.visionnet.nl/

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

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