I – History Of Video Games
ON YOUTUBE
- Thumb Candy – The History of Computer Games [48 min] (Channel 4)
- The Video Game Crash Of 1983: Continue? [15 min] (Machinima – All Your History)
- The Crash [21 min] (G4 Icons)
- Video Game Crash Of 1983 [11 min] (Gaming Historian)
- The Story Of Computer Games [47 min] (Discovery Channel)
- Historia de los Videojuegos [50 min] (Spanish / Discovery Channel)
- FOCUS: An Original Movie About Street Fighter Champion, Mike Ross [74 min] (G4 Films)
- Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games [89 min]
- GameHeadz [47 min] (Discovery Channel)
- Playing to Win: Inside the Video Game Industry [50 min]
- Gamer Generation [45 min] (Discovery Channel)
- Get Lamp (2010) (The director uploaded the documentary also on YouTube)
- Gaming Decades: The 70s, 80s and 90s [7 min] (IGN)
- A Short Visual History Of Video Games [3 min]
- History Of Gaming [4 min]
- IGN’s Top 25 Videogame Consoles Of All Time [12 min] (IGN // 2009)
- ESRB – Part 1 [6 min] (G4 Icons)
- ESRB – Part 2 [8 min] (G4 Icons)
- ESRB – Part 3 [8 min] (G4 Icons)
- E3 [21 min] (G4 Icons)
- E3: Where Games Go to Play [8 min] (Machinima – All Your History)
- E3 [9 min] (GameSpot Video Game History Month // 2010)
- Tokyo Game Show [8 min] (GameSpot Video Game History Month // 2011)
ON DVD
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (“Diehard video game fans compete to break World Records on classic arcade games.”)
- List of more Video Game Documentaries on imdb.com
UPCOMING DOCUMENTARIES
- Minecraft Documentary (You can already watch the 20 min shortfilm
- Everything By Everyone – A Film About Newgrounds And The Evolution Of Online Entertainment
VIDEO GAME SHOWS
- Angry Video Game Nerd (The AVGN reviews old games (mostly bad ones) in a very entertaining way and points out the flaws of those games. Also check out this video in which he explains in great detail how much work and love goes into every single episode.
- Video Game Vault (ScrewAttacks Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom review oldish bad and good games)
- Video Game Retrospectives (Comprehensive Retrospectives about popular gaming series)
- Game Center CX (Very entertaining japanese gaming show where a guy tries to beat old Nintendo Games. The episodes can be found on YouTube)
- Retroware TV (Network of gaming related shows)
- That Guy with the Glasses (Network of gaming/movie related shows)
- MTV GameOne (German Show // very entertaining and authentic show about video games)
- Rocketbeans TV (German Show // on same level as GameOne since it is by the same people)
- High5 (German Show // show just started in december 2012… really promising so far)
- Pixelmacher (German Show // fine documentaries about games and game related things)
- Films With Plots Centered On Video Games (Wikipedia)
TIMELINES
- A Video Game Timeline (1967 – Present)
- Video Gaming Timeline – 1970s
- Video Gaming Timeline – 1980s
- Video Gaming Timeline – 1990s
- Video Gaming Timeline – 2000s
- Ultimate Console Database
- The Game Console
- The Video Game Museum
VIDEO GAME PRESERVATION
- Where Games Go To Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis, Part 1 (Gamasutra)
- Where Games Go To Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis, Part 2 (Gamasutra)
- Where Games Go To Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis, Part 3 (Gamasutra)
- Preserving The Digital Game Canon (Racketboy)
VIDEO GAME MUSEUMS
- International Center for the History of Electronic Games (USA // New York)
- American Classic Arcade Museum (USA // New Hampshire)
- Computerspielemuseum (Germany // Berlin)
(if you should know any video game museums please mention them in the comments)
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Last year a unique video game museum opened in Berlin, Germany. It is called the Computerspielemuseum Berlin.
More information here: http://www.nextlevel-conference.org/2011/01/0085-computerspielemuseum-eroffnet-am-21-januar/
and here: http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
Unfortunately it’s only in German, but Google will help you!
Cheers,
Stephan
Stephan
September 26, 2011
Stephan, thanks for the tip!
PixelProspector
September 26, 2011
For museums, the American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire… they bring down truckloads of classic arcade games to PAX East every year. :)
Lorien
October 2, 2011
I know of some video game museums such as American Classic Arcade Museum PO Box 5533, Weirs Beach, NH 03247 gary@classicarcademuseum.org I left some information so that it’d be more convenient for those of you’s who want to learn more about it.
Nick
January 14, 2012
Part three of a series called Games Britannia is subtitled “Joystick Generation” and is online here: http://vimeo.com/8323312
Emmeline
March 9, 2012
where is the timeline of games from 2009 to 2012? couldn’t find it I NEED THIS INFORMATION FOR A SCHOOL PROJECT please tell me or i’m DOOMED!!!!!!!
1235647
May 23, 2012
the brantford ontario pc museum has a strong videogames bent, see http://infinitelives.net/2011/10/06/lost-forgotten-extra-terrestrials-for-atari-2600-rediscovered/
website here
http://www.pcmuseum.ca/
offal
August 21, 2012
Hi guys!
There is a videogames museum also in italy, ar Rome!:D
http://www.vigamus.com/
Saddy
April 17, 2013