The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996.

Site dedicated to classic arcade systems.

Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.

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.

A site dedicated to when video games were simple and addictive. Going back as early as Pong, up to the PSX and SEGA Saturn era.

Classic Arcade Gaming chronicles the history of the golden age of coin-op video gaming including the games, players, contests, and scores.

Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.

Part one of this multi-part history features William Higinbotham who created the first game: Tennis for 2. With photographs and audio clip.

Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.

Japanese videogame history including cartoons.

Comcamel.com provides information, news, images and strategies for Empire Earth (2), the best RTS game around.

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.

The story of the videogames as a cultural media, the analysis of the influence between the videogame, the cinema and the social interaction.

A site about various memorabilia around video games.

Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.

A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them.

Library of past and present computer and video games.

Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.

A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001.

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.

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

Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.

Contains the Guinness Book Coin Operated Video Game High Scores and behind the scenes information behind these scores.

Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers

A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance. Includes links to relevant material.

A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.

A journey through the classic system Intellivision.

Coin-op collection based in the UK. PLUS repairlogs, useful information, author's personal high scores since 1980, videogame polls, jammajup quiz, and links.

Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry.

Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.

Dedicated to the history of classic computer and console games. Includes a timeline charting important events up to the current period.

Video game reviews, PC hardware reviews and more! The coolest stuff around! Retro week and more!

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.

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.

The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.

Featuring great magazines from the 80's including: Zzap! 64, Crash, Big K, CandVG, Atari User, Dragon User, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, Personal Computer Games, and Sinclair projects.

The world's most advanced list of pc and console video games,including the history of every game in every country.

Classic arcade video game history.

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 Console offers a set of video game consoles that are compatible with the classic game consoles of long ago. The first product is a NES compatible system with many advantages over the original system.

Play Retro Games, also have a look at the Atari St and Sega Megadrive Games Archives (including screenshots, reviews and box cover art).

Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.

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.

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.

Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.

A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.

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.

Complete Dragon's Lair & Space Ace games collection, including all items:music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.

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.

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.

An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.

Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.

Video game database is a searchable database of all games for all systems that is continually being updated by gamers. Features screenshots, reviews, and ratings.

A personal story of the early video game history.

Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.

Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.

A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers.