Video game/External Links
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Lists of video games
Free game demos
Legally emulated classics for free play
- Spacewar!
- Tennis For Two
- Pong
- Atari classics such as Asteroids, Breakout, and Centipede, among others (requires Java download).
- Hunt the Wumpus
Traveling exhibits
- Game On: The History, Culture and Future of Computer Games exhibition
- Play! A Video Game Symphony
- Video Games Live is a concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time.
- Videotopia
Stationary exhibits
- American Museum of the Moving Image (defunct)
- The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. includes video game memorabilia in its collections, such as a Game Boy, a Pac-Man Gumball Bank, and a working prototype of Magnavox's Odyssey.
- Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition
- Videogame Nation
Game studies
- DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) is a non-profit, international association of academics and practitioners whose work focuses on digital games and associated activities.
- Game Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal on video games.
Records
- Twin Galaxies describes themselves as "world authority on player rankings, gaming statistics and championship tournaments, with pinball statistics dating from the 1930s and video game statistics from the early 1970s." They are the official supplier of video game scores to the Guinness World Record Books.
Trade publications
- Gamasutra
- Game Developer Magazine
- Gamesindustry.biz
- MCV