Open Directory - Games: Video Games: History
See also: This category in other languages: - Old video and arcade games online for free. Pacman, Mario Bros Donkey kong, Space Invaders, and Frogger. Emulators on site. - The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996. - A coin-operated game database with more than 29,000 machines featuring pictures and information. - 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 Taito's Bubble Bobble series of games. Includes a media collection and detailed game guides showing all the games secrets. - Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines. - 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. - Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987. - Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports. - Japanese videogame history including cartoons. - 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. - German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage. - This is about crates and barrels in videogames. - Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books. - Promotes video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of culture. - Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games. - Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2. - Features a discussion forum area. Information about video game systems, video games, controllers and repair. - Arcade and 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 journey through the classic system Intellivision. - General arcade and console emulation site. - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games. - 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. - 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. - Collects information related to video games. Consoles range from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Xbox 360. - A website dedicated to retro and vintage computer games and their influence on modern day computer gaming. - 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. - Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs. - A book that illustrates and documents the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon. - Find discussion about a number of classic video games from a wide range of games. - 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. - Website zu Ocean Software`s Klassiker von 1990 für Amiga und AtariST. - Includes forums, a museum, retro shop, magazines, libraries, news, and a hall of fame. Offers emulators and ROMs for most older gaming systems. - 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. - Photo gallery of consoles, arcade games and computers. Reviews of movies that feature computers and computer games. Downloadable retro gaming wallpaper. - An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews. - A behind-the-scenes story of the making of the "Camel Trophy Video game" for the ZX Spectrum in 1985. - Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release. - Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s. - A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers. - Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider. - Online gaming library of all common consoles, handhelds and homecomputers. - Information about classic games and computer magazines. Focus on Newsfield title: Zzap!64. - The story of the videogames as a cultural media, the analysis of the influence between the videogame, the cinema and the social interaction.
