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. |
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. |
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. |
Video Games 101 - Video Games
Video game system information with a focus on Tomb Raider. |
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. |
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. |
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