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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, and Frogger. 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
A coin-operated game database with more than 20,000 machines featuring pictures and information.
Armchair Arcade
http://www.armchairarcade.com/
Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
Brookhaven 1958 Video Game
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html
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.
Bubble Bobble HQ
http://bubblebobblehq.110mb.com
A site dedicated to Taito's Bubble Bobble series of games. Includes an extensive media collection and detailed game guides showing all the games secrets.
Chronology of Video Game Systems
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/
Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines.
Classic Arcade Gaming
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/
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
http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm
Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
Classic Gaming: The History of Computer Gaming Part 1
http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/computergaminghistory/
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
http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/
Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
Classic Retro Games
http://www.classic-retro-games.com
Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.
Classic Videogame Station Odyssey
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/
Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
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.
Computerspiele Museum
http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
German site on a gaming museum located in Berlin. Offers information on projects and press coverage.
crates and barrels
http://www.arminbwagner.com/crates_and_barrels/
This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
culturalstudies behind the videogame
http://culturavg.altervista.org/
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
http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/
A site about various memorabilia around video games.
Dragon's Lair
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/
Complete Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games collection, including music, collectibles, video, goodies and books.
Flat Batteries
http://www.flatbatteries.dsl.pipex.com/
Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
Gallery of Undiscovered Entities
The GUE is a repository of information, packaging pictures, and disk images of lesser-known computer games of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Game Collectors Finland
http://www.gamecollectors.info
Suomen tietokonepelien, videopelien, konsolipelien ja peliautomaattien keräilijöiden mekka.
Game Downloads
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/
Huge archive of reviewed abandonware, freeware and shareware games.
Game Grandpas
Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
Gameconsoles.com - uniting videogame players, collectors and homebrew creators.
Our mission is to unite video game players, collectors and homebrew creators, to educate and preserve the game console industry.