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- 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.
- Chronology of Video Game Systems - Timeline of events tracing the history of video games, including standalone arcade machines, TV games and handheld game machines.
- 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.
- GameSpot: History of Video Games - A history of personal video games from 1889 to 2001.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Videotopia - Exhibit of the true history of video games. An international traveling museum exhibit chronicling the history of mankind's first interactive media.
- Arcade-History.com - A coin-operated game database with more than 11,000 machines featuring pictures and information.
Wikipedia Articles
- Timeline of video arcade game history - This article contains a timeline of notable events in the history of video arcade gaming:
- History of video game consoles (third generation) - In the history of video games, the 8-bit era was the third generation of video game consoles, but the first after the video game crash of 1983 and considered by some to be the first "modern" era of console gaming (sometimes known as the "silver age" of video game consoles). It began in 1983 with the release of the Famicom in Japan and lasted until 1992.
- Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature - Napoleons Campaigns in Miniature was written by Bruce Quarrie, it is based upon War gaming in the Napoleonic era, and provides information on History, Weapons, Painting, and also it's own set of rules, it was published in 1977 by "Patrick Stevens Ltd.", and the ISBN is "0 85059 283 6".
- Walter Day - Walter Day (born May 14, 1949 in Oakland, California) is a singer/songwriter and historian who has launched numerous research projects that utilize printed objects to study the history of culture. In recent years, Walter Day also was the founder of Twin Galaxies, an international organization that tracks high-score statistics for the worldwide electronic gaming hobby.
- Games Domain - Games Domain was a computer and video games website founded by Dave Stanworth and based out of Birmingham, UK. One of the more prominent gaming websites of the late 1990s, it was at one time mirrored in seven different countries and had a tumultuous history of being purchased by different corporations over its 11-year existence.