- 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/
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Review It - 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
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Review It - Fire-Button
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.
http://fire.spejs.net/
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Review It - Game Grandpas
Covering many systems from the Atari 2600 to the PS2.
http://www.gamegrandpas.com
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Review It - Gotcha
Gives out awards to the best "golden age" computer games. Also includes information, images, reviews, and collectables.
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/
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Review It - Great Game Database
Arcade & video games, technical information and related memorabilia from the classic era through the neoclassic.
http://www.GreatGameDatabase.com
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Review It - 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/
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Review It - I.C. When
A chronological history of computing, with a special emphasis on video games.
http://www.icwhen.com/
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Review It - 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
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Review It - 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
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Review It - 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/
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Review It - SPOnG.com : The Internet Computer Games
A catalogue of over 55,000 games on around 70 platforms. Containing news, screenshots, packaging, summaries and details of developers and publishers, plus competitions, charts, trivia, tips, FAQs & walkthroughs.
http://SPOnG.com/
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Review It - Supercade
A book that illustrate and document the history, legacy, and visual language of the videogame phenomenon.
http://www.supercade.com/
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Review It - 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/
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Review It - The Old Computer Dot Com
A site dedicated to all aspects of retro computing and gaming. Museum, emulators, ROMs, retro Shop, magazines, articles and much more. From Atari 2600, Zenneth, colecovision, amiga, spectrum and everything else.
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/
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Review It - The Video Game Museum
An online video game museum with screenshots, scans, music, ads and reviews.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/
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Review It - 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/
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Review It - Video Game Heaven
Contains pictures specs and information on over 40 classic video game systems ranging from the Atari 2600 up to the Microsoft X Box. There is also a visual timeline of video game consoles starting in 1972 and ending in 2001. The site is focused on classic video games and the history of video games.
http://www.videogameheaven.net/
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Review It - Video Games
A personal story of the early video game history.
http://www.virtualgaz.co.uk/videogamespage.htm
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