Knowledge: history
See Also:
- computers → hardware → historical
- computers → history
- computers → software → history
- games → history
- games → video games → console platforms → classic
Links
- A Brief History of Home Video Games
http://www.geekcomix.com/vgh/ - The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996.
- History of Home Video Games
http://www.videogames.org/html/ - A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance. Includes links to relevant material.
- Videotopia
http://www.videotopia.com/ - Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
- The Video Game Museum
http://www.vgmuseum.com/ - An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
- Pong to Pacman
http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html - 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.
- Classic Videogame Station Odyssey
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/ - Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
- Phosphor Dot Fossils
http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ - Classic arcade video game history.
- The Old Computer Dot Com
http://www.theoldcomputer.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.
- Brookhaven 1958 Video Game
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html - 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.
- Supercade
http://www.supercade.com/ - A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
- TheCan.Org
http://thecan.org/ - Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
- Intellivision Classic Videogame Website
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/ - A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
- Gotcha
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/ - Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
- Oilzine.com
http://www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49 - The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
- Classic Gaming: The History of Computer Gaming Part 1
http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/computergaminghistory/ - Part one of this multi-part history features William Higinbotham who created the first game: Tennis for 2. With photographs and audio clip.
- Screens Edge
http://www.zxscreens.i12.com/zxscreens/ - 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
http://spong.com/ - Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
- GameSpot: History of Video Games
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/ - A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001.
- RetroBase.de - Videogame preservation since Feb. 2002
http://www.retrobase.de - 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.
- Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History
http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/ - A site about various memorabilia around video games.
- Classic BASIC Games
http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm - Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
- NintendoLand
http://www.nintendoland.com - 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.
- MobyGames
http://mobygames.com/ - 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.
- Halcyon Days
http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/ - Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
- Vintage computer games and hardware
http://www.stellatron.com/ - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
- Retro Experience
http://www.retro-experience.co.uk - Play Retro Games, also have a look at the Atari St and Sega Megadrive Games Archives (including screenshots, reviews and box cover art).
- Gaming in the Media World
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/youngsteve/SystemFrames.htm - 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.
- Lucasarts Museum
http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
- Classic Arcade Gaming
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/ - Classic Arcade Gaming chronicles the history of the golden age of coin-op video gaming including the games, players, contests, and scores.
- The Stairway To Hell
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/ - 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 Home Video Games Museum
http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/ - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
- Jammajup
http://www.jammajup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk - Coin-op collection based in the UK. PLUS repairlogs, useful information, author's personal high scores since 1980, videogame polls, jammajup quiz, and links.
- Retro View
http://www.mameworld.net/retroview/ - Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
- Great Game Database
http://www.ggdb.com/ - Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
- Game Grandpas
http://ryangenno.tripod.com/ - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
- Computer Gaming World Museum
http://cgw.vintagegaming.org - 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.
- culturalstudies behind the videogame
http://culturavg.altervista.org/ - The story of the videogames as a cultural media, the analysis of the influence between the videogame, the cinema and the social interaction.
- Armchair Arcade
http://www.armchairarcade.com/ - Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
- VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/ - A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers.
- Guinness Book Coin-Op High Scores 1986-1997
http://spyhunter007.com - Contains the Guinness Book Coin Operated Video Game High Scores and behind the scenes information behind these scores.
- Twin Galaxies
http://www.twingalaxies.com - Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s.
- Lee's PeeknPoke
http://peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm - General arcade and console emulation site.
- Classic Retro Games
http://www.classic-retro-games.com - Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.
- crates and barrels
http://medien.akbild.ac.at/armin/crates_and_barrels/ - This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
- Game Downloads
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/ - Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games.
- Game Collectors Finland
http://www.gamecollectors.info - Suomen tietokonepelien, videopelien, konsolipelien ja peliautomaattien keräilijöiden mekka.
- 1980 games - Old online video and arcade games for free
http://www.1980-games.com/us/ - Old video and arcade games online for free. Pacman, Mario Bros Donkey kong, Space Invaders, Frogger and more. Emulators on site.
- Arcade-History.com
http://www.arcade-history.com - A coin-operated game database with more than 11,000 machines featuring pictures and information.
- Visionnet - Retrogaming
http://www.visionnet.nl/ - Online gaming library of all common consoles, handhelds and homecomputers.
- Video Games 101 - Video Games
http://www.videogames101.net - Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider.
- Games Implosion
http://www.freewebs.com/gamesimplosion/ - Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair.
- The Super-Kaga Computer Museum
http://computermuseum.bigpondhosting.com/ - Photo gallery of consoles, arcade games and computers. Reviews of movies that feature computers and computer games. Downloadable retro gaming wallpaper.
- The Dot Eaters: Videogame History 101
http://www.thedoteaters.com - 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.
- Zzapback: The Future is Retro
http://www.zzapback.com - Information about classic games and computer magazines. Focus on Newsfield title: Zzap!64.
- RF Generation. The Classic and Modern Video Games Database.
http://www.rfgeneration.com - 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.
- Chronology of Video Game Systems
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/ - Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines.
- Flat Batteries
http://www.flatbatteries.dsl.pipex.com/ - 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
http://gue.vintagegaming.org - The GUE is a repository of information, packaging pictures, and disk images of lesser-known computer games of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- The Lost Patrol Webshrine
http://thelostpatrol.knagge.com/ - Website zu Ocean Software`s Klassiker von 1990 für Amiga und AtariST.
- Pirate's Portal
http://pirates.emucamp.com/ - A games encyclopedia. Contains screen shots and games for many computers (including the VIC-20) sorted by title, country, genre, year, language and person.
- Computerspiele Museum
http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/ - German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage.
- The making of the Camel Trophy Videogame
http://www.rescogita.com/cvg/cvgfeature_en_01.php - A behind-the-scenes story of the making of the "Camel Trophy Video game" for the ZX Spectrum in 1985.
- Gameconsoles.com - uniting videogame players, collectors and homebrew creators.
http://www.gameconsoles.com - Our mission is to unite video game players, collectors and homebrew creators, to educate and preserve the game console industry.
- Bubble Bobble HQ
http://bubblebobblehq.110mb.com - A site dedicated to Taito's Bubble Bobble series of games. Includes an extensive media collection and detailed game guides showing all the games secrets.
- Dragon's Lair
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/ - Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
- The Armchair Empire
http://www.armchairempire.com/classic_gaming.htm - Find discussion about a number of classic video games from a wide range of games.
- Retro Games Blog
http://www.retrogamesblog.co.uk - A website dedicated to retro and vintage computer games and their influence on modern day computer gaming.
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