Recommended Resources

Here's my page of recommended resources and reading. I've used most, if not all of these resources at some point or another, so I thought you might like to see where I get much of my information from. This will, naturally, expand as I continue along.

I will provide a summary of each resource if I feel it necessary. Most of them are freely available online, but some are paid. Those that are paid resources will be specifically noted.

Books & Magazines:

101 BASIC Computer Games, Digital Equipment Corporation (Ed. by David H. Ahl) - Third printing of the original publication, 1975.

BASIC Computer Games (Microcomputer Edition), David H. Ahl. - 1978 updated edition of 101 BASIC Computer Games.

Creative Computing Magazine, Creative Computing. An archive of Creative Computing Magazine, which ran from 1974 - 1985.

More BASIC Computer Games, David H. Ahl.

People's Computer Company, an archive of publications from People's Computer Company, 1972 - 1990.

Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Video Games (Second Edition), Leonard Herman. [Requires an Internet Archive account to borrow.]

The Friendly Orange Glow, Brian Dear - A book on the history of PLATO. [This is a paid resource, available on Kindle.]

The Ultimate History of Video Games Revisited, Steven L. Kent.

VideoGames: In the Beginning, Ralph H. Bear. - History of Ralph Baer's contribution to video games; includes the highly detailed development process of the first home video game console: Magnavox's Odyssey.

What to Do After You Hit Return, People's Computer Company. - Classic BASIC type-in book from PCC; essentially their version of 101 BASIC Computer Games.

Online Databases:

IGDB - This one kind of sucks at the moment; it's missing a lot of early games. I'm going to work to fix that, but the process to add games is long, and the site isn't very responsive to new additions.

Gaming-History (formerly Arcade-History)

MobyGames - This is my primary online database.

(Free) Game Collections:

BASIC Games on Internet Archive - For everything not included in Vintage BASIC's collection.

Retrogame Deconstruction Zone Simulators - This blog has a few simulators for games I've played. This link takes you to his table of contents - the simulators are at the top of this page.

Vintage BASIC's BASIC Computer Games collection

Miscellaneous Media Resources:

Atari collection of interviews and documentaries - An unlisted playlist of various interviews and documentaries relating to Atari as a company, and/or the people involved in Atari. Ever expanding as I find new media.