| • 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. |
| • 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. |
