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.
http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/

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.
http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/computergaminghistory/

Flat Batteries

Flat Batteries is here to promote video games as an art form worthy of respect as a valuable part of our culture.
http://www.flatbatteries.com

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).
http://www.retro-experience.co.uk

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.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/youngsteve/SystemFrames.htm

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.
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/

Retro View

Tips, cheats, reviews, high scores and discussion of classic video games.
http://www.mameworld.net/retroview/

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.
http://cgw.vintagegaming.org

I.C. When

A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
http://www.icwhen.com/

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.
http://www.geekcomix.com/vgh/

TheCan.Org

Read, enjoy and contribute accounts of computer, video and online games that were cancelled or otherwise lost, precious, before release.
http://thecan.org/

Gotcha

Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/

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.
http://www.zxscreens.i12.com/zxscreens/

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.
http://www.mintfresh.0catch.com/

Classic BASIC Games

Collection of classic MS BASIC games and a BASIC Interpreter compatible with BASIC circa 1979.
http://awsoftware.org/classiccomputing.htm

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.
http://www.nintendoland.com

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.
http://mobygames.com/

Halcyon Days

Halcyon days includes interviews with classic computer and video game programmers
http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/

Retro Console

Retro Console offers a set of video game consoles that are compatible with the classic game consoles of long ago. The first product is a NES compatible system with many advantages over the original system.
http://www.retroconsole.com

Lucasarts Museum

Chronicles all things related to the classic Lucasart's adventure games.
http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org

Game Grandpas

Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
http://ryangenno.tripod.com/

Armchair Arcade

Classic and modern computer and videogame online publication.
http://www.armchairarcade.com/

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.
http://www.themsg.com

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.
http://www.videogames.org/html/

Videotopia

Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
http://www.videotopia.com/

The Video Game Museum

An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/

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.
http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html

Classic Videogame Station Odyssey

Japanese videogame history including cartoons.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cvs/odyssey/

Phosphor Dot Fossils

Classic arcade video game history.
http://www.theLogBook.com/phosphor/

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.
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/

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.
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html

Supercade

A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
http://www.supercade.com/

Intellivision Classic Videogame Website

A journey through the classic system Intellivision.
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/

Video Games

A personal story of the early video game history.
http://www.virtualgaz.co.uk/videogamespage.htm

Oilzine.com

The history of the two pillars, pong and asteroids, of the home gaming market.
http://www.oilzine.com/features/features_details.asp?ID=49

SPOnG.com

Containing news, screenshots, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs, and walkthroughs.
http://spong.com/

GameSpot: History of Video Games

A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/

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.
http://www.retrobase.de

Old Computer Magazine Website

Featuring great magazines from the 80's including: Zzap! 64, Crash, Big K, CandVG, Atari User, Dragon User, Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, Personal Computer Games, and Sinclair projects.
http://www.old-computer-mags.co.uk/

Dangerous Dann's Museum of Video History

A site about various memorabilia around video games.
http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Danger_Dan/

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.
http://users.skynet.be/nuno

Vintage computer games and hardware

Includes photographs of vintage software and hardware.
http://www.stellatron.com/

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.
http://www.videogamedb.com/

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.
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/

Classic Home Video Games Museum

Devoted to video games made from 1972 to 1987.
http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/

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.
http://www.jammajup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Great Game Database

Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
http://www.ggdb.com/

Flynn's Classic Games

A website that reviews classic PC games and shows where you can buy them.
http://studentwebs.winona.edu/awflynn2605/

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.
http://culturavg.altervista.org/

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.
http://www.buttonbashers.net

Comcamel.com - The hump of Empire Earth

Comcamel.com provides information, news, images and strategies for Empire Earth (2), the best RTS game around.
http://www.compair.buildtolearn.net/camel/

Link Cable of Time

Linking gaming past to gaming present with reviews and backstories on all of the major developers of the gaming industry.
http://www.linkcableoftime.com

VOGONS - Very Old Games On New Systems

A forum about how to get older games to run on newer computers.
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/

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.
http://spyhunter007.com

Twin Galaxies

Official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing since the early 1980s.
http://www.twingalaxies.com

Lee's PeeknPoke

General arcade and console emulation site.
http://peeknpoke.emuunlim.com/newsitems.htm

Classic Retro Games

Directory of quality full versions of freeware retro remakes and ports.
http://www.classic-retro-games.com

crates and barrels

This is about crates and barrels in videogames.
http://medien.akbild.ac.at/armin/crates_and_barrels/