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Video Games/History

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• A Brief History of Home Video Games   [rate] [review]
  The history of home video games with essays concerning the industry and its players. Covers the industry until 1996.

• Aven - games station   [rate] [review]
  A catalog of links to classic game systems and emulators.

• binary heritage dot com   [rate] [review]
  A site detailing the history and development of video games. Retro game discussion in forums.

• Brookhaven 1958 Video Game   [rate] [review]
  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.

• Classic BASIC Games   [rate] [review]
  Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.

• Classic Gaming: The History of Computer Gaming Part 1   [rate] [review]
  Part one of this multi-part history features William Higinbotham who created the first game: Tennis for 2. With photographs and audio clip.

• Classic Videogame Station Odyssey   [rate] [review]
  Japanese videogame history including cartoons.

• Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History   [rate] [review]
  A site about various memorabilia around video games.

• Fire-Button   [rate] [review]
  A community for all computer and videogamers. Includes game information, screenshots and cover scans for over 50 different platforms. Rate, review and add comments in the forum or visit the web directory.

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

• Game Grandpas   [rate] [review]
  Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.

• GameSpot: History of Video Games   [rate] [review]
  A history of personal video games from 1889 to present.

• Gotcha   [rate] [review]
  Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.

• Great Game Database   [rate] [review]
  Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.

• History of Home Video Games   [rate] [review]
  A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance. Includes links to relevant material.

• I.C. When   [rate] [review]
  A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.

• Intellivision Classic Videogame Website   [rate] [review]
  A journey through the classic system Intellivision.

• Mintfresh's Classic Games Site   [rate] [review]
  Dedicated to the history of classic computer and console games. Includes a timeline charting important events up to the current period.

• MobyGames   [rate] [review]
  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   [rate] [review]
  Provides information concerning Nintendo consoles and games. 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 messsage boards.

• Oilzine.com   [rate] [review]
  The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.

• Old Computer Magazine Website   [rate] [review]
  Featuring great magazines from the 80's including: Zzap! 64, Crash, Big K, C&VG, Atari User, Dragon User, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, Personal Computer Games, Sinclair projects and more!

• Phosphor Dot Fossils   [rate] [review]
  Classic arcade video game history.

• Pirates Portal - the games encyclopaedia   [rate] [review]
  Provides an overview of old platform video and computer games. Focusing on 8 bit machines including: screenshots, online music, covers, highscores, credits, and short reviews.

• Pong to Pacman   [rate] [review]
  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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