Tagged “video-game-history”
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A Chronology of Star Wars Games
A long, lovingly researched chronology of every Star Wars videogame ever released, from arcade cabinets to tie-in odditi…
A Complete History of Birdo's Gender
A thorough history of how Nintendo has described Birdo since Doki Doki Panic, comparing English and Japanese manuals, ga…
Atari CX-2000
A museum page on the Atari CX-2000, a strange 1982 prototype 2600 redesign with built-in joysticks, explaining why Atari…
Atari Email Archive
A collection of internal emails sent at Atari between 1983 and 1992, organised into threads and categories, offering a c…
Bad Game Hall of Fame
A tongue-in-cheek hall of fame that gives infamous video games a fair trial, examining their history, reviewing their co…
Black Games Archive
An archive exploring Black representation in video games, with deep-dive features on individual games such as rap and hi…
Games That Weren't
An archive of cancelled and unreleased video games, with prototypes, developer histories and assets for titles from comp…
GamesNostalgia
Four decades of video game history told year by year, from the Apple II and Commodore 64 to the studios and games that s…
HintLine93
A playable simulation from Melbourne's ACMI museum that puts you on a 1990s video game hint line, fielding calls from st…
Moai in Video Games
A catalogue of over a thousand video games featuring Easter Island moai heads, browsable by developer, platform and year…
P7uen
Spoiler-free video game archaeology: deep-dive retrospectives on Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Muppets, Star Wars and To…
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Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
A first-hand essay on how kids actually played Pac-Man in 1980s arcades - quarters on the cabinet, crowds, tricks and ri…
Paperboy - Museum of the Game
The International Arcade Museum entry for Atari's 1984 Paperboy, with gameplay notes, cabinet details, flyers and trivia…
Poly Play
A collector's page all about Poly Play, the only arcade machine ever made in communist East Germany, with photos, histor…
Rob Beschizza
Rob Beschizza's collection of long-form stories, including the Gauntlet arcade game retold as historical fiction and a m…
Super Chart Island
A British history of popular video games told one sales chart number one at a time, with essays on every chart topper an…
Super Fighter versus Sango Fighter
A feature by Brandon Cobb on two rival Taiwanese fighting games, the legal wrangles that followed and how the Chinese wa…
The Life & Times of Video Games: MobyGames
An audio documentary episode on how MobyGames grew from a hobby project into the biggest open database of video game his…
The RollerCoaster Tycoon Ride That Takes 3,000 Years
The story of a RollerCoaster Tycoon fan who built a ride so long and slow it would take thousands of in-game years for g…
VGHF Digital Archive
The Video Game History Foundation's free digital archive, where you can browse preserved design documents, art, magazine…
What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
A deep dive into why Japan's own computers, such as the PC-98, X68000 and FM Towns, thrived in the 1980s and 90s and the…
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