| I.C. When - A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Videotopia - International traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
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| The Video Game Museum - An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
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| 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.
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| Classic Videogame Station Odyssey - Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
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| Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Supercade - A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
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| TheCan.Org - Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
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| Official Intellivision Classic Videogame Website - Freeware emulator for MacOS and Win32.
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| Video Games - A personal story of the early video game history.
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| Gotcha - Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
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| Oilzine.com - The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| SPOnG.com - Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
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| GameSpot: History of Video Games - A history of personal video games from 1889 to present.
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| Mintfresh's Classic Games Site - Dedicated to the history of classic computer and console games. Includes a timeline charting important events up to the current period.
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| 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.
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| Video Game Gurus - Where video game collectors come to show of their collections. Includes information about every video game system released in the US and Japan, plus some not released.
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| Flat Batteries - Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
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| Old Computer Magazine Website - 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.
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| Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History - A site about various memorabilia around video games.
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| Classic BASIC Games - Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
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| The Dragon's Lair / Space Ace Computer Games Collection - Complete Dragon's Lair & Space Ace games collection, including all items:music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Halcyon Days - Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
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| Vintage computer games and hardware - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
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| Retro Console - 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.
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| Playable Classic Games - Features downloadable classic games.
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| 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).
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| Roald E. Peterson III - A Web site devoted to the old, but classic turn-based space empire strategy game, Anacreon Reconstruction 4021 and other classic retro games.
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| Gaming in the Media World - 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.
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| Lucasarts Museum - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
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| 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.
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| Video Game Database - 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.
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| 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.
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| Classic Home Video Games Museum - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
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| 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.
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| Retro View - Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
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| Great Game Database - Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
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| Game Grandpas - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
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| Arcade Timewarp - classic arcade games, video games, arcade machines - Site dedicated to classic arcade systems.
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| 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.
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| Flynn's Classic Games - A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them.
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| 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.
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| Armchair Arcade - Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
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| Otsuge - Video Game History - The world's most advanced list of pc and console video games,including the history of every game in every country.
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| MisTiX - Video game reviews and more - Video game reviews, PC hardware reviews and more! The coolest stuff around! Retro week and more!
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| Game Archive.net - Library of past and present computer and video games.
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