IC When.com: Historical timeline
American Museum of
the Moving Image: Online exhibition of classic games
Pong-Story: All about Pong
The Arcade Flyer Archive: Vintage
promo flyers, scanned and organized
The Atari Historical Society
ClassicGaming: Also links to FilePlanet
ROM/MAME vault for emulator files
Classic Gaming Expo: Annual convention
in Las Vegas for enthusiasts
Classic Video Games Nexus:
Fan site, so-so
Digital Press Site: Links,
emulators, message boards, etc.
The Giant List of Classic
Game Programmers: Who wrote what.
SUPERCADE: Van Burnham's promo page.
Has links, email listserve.
The Video Game Museum: Video game pics,
scans, etc. Lots of nostalgia
Official Intellivision Classic
Videogame Website: Just what it says. Emulators as well.
GameArchive: Decent page of older
games
KLOV.com -- Killer List of Videogames: A
very comprehensive archive of arcade games
VIDEOTOPIA: Online part of the travelling
game exhibition
Atari Gaming Headquarters Main Page: Atari-only
archive, source
Charles Babbage Institute: Computer
history page
COMPUTE! Archive of Atari-only
magazine from early 80s.
Phaze's Classic Videogame Magazine Museum:
Fan site. Has some old magazines.
The Digital A.N.A.L.O.G.
Archive: Another Atari enthusiast magazine from early 80s.
Chronology
of Video Game Systems (1984-2002): Short, so-so timeline
DiGRA: Digital Games Research Organization.
Digiplay
Initiative: Good site for links, with a good bibiography of games papers
and books.
Game Research: A for-profit
research team that posts some articles. They maintain a good listserve with
recent articles.
Research at the MIT Media Lab
Life Online and Off: Katz
et al paper about social networks and the Internet
Games, Gamers
and Gaming Culture: Finnish site with good updated links and papers
Game Culture: Academic
site, lists some articles, journals
Game Studies: Dedicated games journal,
online articles.
www.ludology.org: Grab-bag of game theorists
RE:PLAY modules 1-4:
Discussion on game issues.
Computer
Games as a Learning Resource: Online article on topic
IJIGS: Journal for
designers
The Norrathian Scrolls: Stupendous
research effort by an undergraduate. Worth visiting.
The Journal
of Virtual Environments
The
Video Game Yellow Pages: Industry directory.
IGDA: Professional Developer's Association.
Very well-run site and group with regualr events, news.
Gamasutra
- The Art & Science of Making Games: Industry site for developers and
publishers. Sign-up required, but worth it. Good weekly email and discussion
groups.
The ESA:
Trade group for the industry. Party-line information, slick and professionally
presented.
Gamespot: Pseudo-journalistic site for
game reviews, downloads, links to official sites, some articles.
All Game Guide: Comprehensive listing of
every game ever made for every platform. Most comprehensive database available.
Maintained by Dmitri Williams
Last updated: 11/5/04