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. |
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. |
Fire-Button
A community for all computer and videogamers. Includes game information, screenshots and cover scans for over 50 different platforms. Rate, review and add comments in the forum or visit the web directory. |
Game Grandpas
Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2. |
GameSpot: History of Video Games
A history of personal video games from 1889 to present. |
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. |
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. |
Oilzine.com
The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market. |
Phosphor Dot Fossils
Classic arcade video game history. |
Pirates Portal - the games encyclopaedia
This site provides an overview of old platform video and computer games. Focusing on 8 bit machines including: screenshots, online music, covers, highscores, credits, short reviews etc. |
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. |
RetroBase.de - Videogame preservation since Feb. 2002
Videogame preservation is our mission. We cover 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. Pocket, and more! |
Retrogamer
A printed fanzine published in Liverpool, UK which is dedicated to classic video games. |
SPOnG.com : The Internet Computer Games
A catalogue of over 55,000 games on around 70 platforms. Containing news, screenshots, packaging, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs & walkthroughs. |
Supercade
A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon. |
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 Video Game Museum
An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews. |
TheCan.Org
Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release. |
Video Game Gurus
Where video game collectors come to show off. Information on classic and modern systems, including a timeline of video games. |
Video Games
A personal story of the early video game history. |
