| • | 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, Frogger and more. Emulators on site. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Arcade History Database - Arcade History is an arcade video games database where you can find more than 4600 games featuring pictures and information. |
| • | Armchair Arcade - Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication. |
| • | 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. |
| • | ButtonBashers - 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 - 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. |
| • | Comcamel.com - The hump of Empire Earth - Comcamel.com provides information, news, images and strategies for Empire Earth (2), the best RTS game around. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Flat Batteries - Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture. |
| • | Flynn's Classic Games - A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them. |
| • | 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. |
| • | GameArchive.net - The Library of past and present computer and video games. |
| • | GameSpot: History of Video Games - A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | I.C. When - A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Link Cable of Time - Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry. |
| • | Lucasarts Museum - Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Phosphor Dot Fossils - Classic arcade video game history. |
| • | 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 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Twin Galaxies - Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Video Games - A personal story of the early video game history. |
| • | Videotopia - Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media. |
| • | Vintage computer games and hardware - Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware. |
| • | VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems - A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers. |
