Retro Gaming Culture

A hub containing links to stuff related to retro gaming.

Databases and reviews

- Dedicated to classic DOSgames

Arcade Flyer Archive

- Scans of arcade game/pinball flyers

Blame The Controlpad

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- A general huge resource site

- A general huge resource site

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- On this site you will find a MSX software database (with software info, screenshots and tips, passwords, cheats, etc),

Hardcoregaming101

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Internet Pinball Database

- A comprehensive, searchable listing of virtually every pinball machine ever commercially made.

Killer List of Video games

- Arcade game database

- Commodore 64 game database

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- Dedicated to Nintendo Entertainment System fans and collectors

Nintendo Database

- Database of games made by Nintendo

Nintendo player

- Nintendo news and info.

- We aim to review whatever games we are playing so cover Japanese and American NTSC games, PAL games, Portable games and PC games.

PAL Mega-CD Library

- Info and pics of Sega Mega-CD games, specifically those published in PAL-area

- A site devoted to distributing disk images for the by-gone NEC PC-98 platform.

- Relive Remember Replay

- Sega-16.com: The Complete Online Resource for Everything Genesis/Mega Drive

Sega8bit - SMS Tributes

- Aim of this website is to build upon and maintain a community for all those who still remember the Sega Master System.

Segagaga Domain

- A database of Yakumo's personal collection of Sega and Retro Core tv show.

- Sega 8-bit preservation and fanaticism

Svatopluk's Arcade

- Arcade game listing. With screenshots and short descriptions.

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- Arcade hardware and software archive

The Indie Games Database

- Explore the world of indie games.

The Video Game Museum

- great repository of all things video games

- Definitive lists of the greatest 8-bit and 16-bit console games

- PC-88 / PC-98 game database with screensots

- Famicon, Super-Famicon and PC-Engine reviews

World of Spectrum

- Dedicated for the ZX Spectrum line of home computers.

|tsr's NES archive

- |tsr's NES archive, a front of information and support for the best video game console ever made.

Blogs

1UP's Retro Gaming Blog

- Fantastic editorials.

3DO Interactive Multiplayer

- Some insane ramblings about a games console that died almost 10 years ago.

4 color rebellion

- Games, Comics & Life

- in search of the poetic and lyrical in video games

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Game Boy Player Land

- All things Game Boy.

Gaming Sanctuary

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- Covers all nintendo releated news/reviews, including retro

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- They are pretty much the best Nintendo DS site ever

- News(haha) about unrealesed games.

Portals

- A site that combine geek culture with fashion, art, & designer toy culture.

- Gaming news from Japan

ASSEMblergames.com - Home of the obscure

- We seek the long forgotten, the long lost, the broken, the hidden. We seek out what was forgotten and repair, compile, dump and recover so that it may shine again in the eyes of the world.

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- (kinda like Kotaku)

Euro-Asia Game Boy

- Once dubbed the "United Nations Of GameBoy", is proud to bring you the best in GameBoy coverage from Asia, Europe and the Continental U.S.A.

- Community and guide for Famicom games, hardware, history, and hacks.

- Just shares the enjoyment of video games

- Japanese Gaming: The source of info on old and new Japanese console games.

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- GDRI is an organization dedicated to researching the companies and people involved with video game development.

- A community for serious game and reviews discussion relating to current, retro, niche and import video games

- Reviews, features and a wiki of obscure games

- Fighting game news and strategy guides.

- Obvious.

- Dedicated to everything Nintendo

- NEC console resource

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Pioneer Project

- Enjoying games a little differently.

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Retrogaming Times

- Longest running free on-line retrogaming newsletter ever.

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- Provides a central hub to encourage a new, refreshed, ROMhacking community

- Podcasts and news on stuff we waste our time on.

- A collaborative and freely-licensed wiki for all your video game strategy guide and walkthrough needs.

The Backloggery

- Helps getting motivated to play the games you already own

The Black Moon Project

- They aim to become the premier resource for Philips CD-i related material.

The Computer Gaming World Museum

- Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all items related to the first magazine specifically dedicated to computer games.

- The point of this site is to cover the varied and interesting 40-year history of all those eater of dots, whether they be the pixels on the screen or the quarters in our pockets.

the wire - nukezulla

- Collect all the posts from the best gaming sites around the world and put them in one easy to find location.

- A nostalgic game museum.

Videos

- Another index of longplays

Let's Play archive

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Images

- Intend to collect and share remarkable 8bit related news, information and media.

- High quality video game cover scans

- Nothing Here Now But The Recordings

Fuck yea nintendo

- They strive to search, and archive everything we can about everyone's favorite video game company, including art, products, trends, and most important, the games.

Fuck Yeah Famicom

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Gamefreaks.co.nz

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- Pix for Game Geeks

- images

Pixels at an exhibition

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- Celebrating the aesthetics of pixels

Retro Pixel & Polygon

- Old & new school pixel art and low polygon 3D models

- television is the retina of the mind's eye

そうさめもメモ

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Audio

- vg music and chiptune streaming radio site

- Streaming the classic 8/16 bit computer, arcade, and console music

Nerd's Music Tumblelog

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- for oc remixs' streaming online radio

- An online radio station playing the best Sega video game music

- C64 remixes

Retronauts podcast

- Retro video game podcasts: parish, kohler

System Specific Recommendations

/Vidya/'s recommended games

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Neo Gaf Forums' official GBA softwear thread

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