142 listings in the directory for “games”.
Volume Flash portal from the Viacom years. Still a pile of short browser games.
https://www.addictinggames.com
Curated Flash / HTML5 house. Fancy Pants, War Games, the “quality portal” of that era.
https://armorgames.com
Classic systems, parts, and games: Atari, Coleco, Intellivision, Odyssey, Pong, Commodore.
http://www.4jays.com
Andrew Plotkin’s 1993–95 Mosaic-era list, frozen as it stood in April 1995. Most links are dead on purpose. This is the index card for WWW games.
https://eblong.com/zarf/zarfs-list.html
Year index. Two hundred-odd 1994 DOS titles with publisher notes. Browse the year, buy the ones still sold.
https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/year/1994
Electronics Boutique and Babbage’s in one surviving mall slot. The pegboard moved; the chain kept the lease.
https://www.gamestop.com
Knockoff carts and the machines that played them. Catalog, not a download shop.
https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/BootlegGames_Wiki
Shareware catalogs as they shipped — Apogee and Epic on-disk catalogs from 1994 included. The shelf, not a steam page.
https://www.dosgames.com
IA historical software library. Catalog and in-browser DOSBox. Same rule as the console living room.
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
Credits, covers, the box photos. Look up what hung on the Babbage’s pegboard.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/group/dos-games/year:1994
A well hidden archive for the ZX on gopher.
gopher://nihirash.net:70/1/wos/zxdn.cgi
C64 game company. Current and active.
https://www.protovision.games
Oaks, Pennsylvania. June 26–28, 2026. Marketplace famous for rare carts plus a freeplay arcade.
https://toomanygames.com
Offers arcade game rentals. Features product pictures.
http://www.houstonarcadegamerentals.com
Hardware, BASIC, games, SID. German-rooted, English pages too.
https://www.c64-wiki.com
Offline archive of Flash and Shockwave games. Download the package, play the lab catalog.
https://flashpointarchive.org
Directory of incrementals and idle games. Skip if you only wanted Zarf; keep if the tab stays open.
https://www.incrementaldb.com
Current WWW game bazaar. Filter by “HTML” or “interactive fiction” for tab-sized games.
https://itch.io
Living homebrew list for SMS / GG / SG. Competitions still drop games.
https://www.smspower.org/Homebrew/Index
Plotkin’s own games in the browser via Parchment / Quixe. Spider and Web, So Far, Shade. Complete stories, not demos.
https://eblong.com/zarf/if.html
Browser incremental that turns into a text adventure. One page, no account.
https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com
Translations and hacks. Patch files, not a commercial dump pile.
https://www.romhacking.net/games/snes
Unused VCS leftovers.
https://tcrf.net/Category:Atari_2600_games
Unused C64 leftovers.
https://tcrf.net/Category:Commodore_64_games
Unused Mega Drive leftovers.
https://tcrf.net/Category:Genesis_games
Unused AES/MVS leftovers.
https://tcrf.net/Category:Neo_Geo_games
Unused NES leftovers by title.
https://tcrf.net/Category:NES_games
Unused Saturn leftovers.
https://tcrf.net/Category:Saturn_games
Unused SNES bits by title.
https://tcrf.net/Category:SNES_games
Living homebrew carts sold as new plastic, not dumped licensed SKUs.
https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=26
Infocom’s Hitchhiker in the browser. Official BBC 30th-anniversary edition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnjCc5e3S6DhsgQ/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition
Windows Game Boy emulator with a debugger the homebrew scene still opens. Tiny page, serious tool.
https://bgb.bircd.org
Cycle-accurate Genesis emulator. Small, fast, the one accuracy people name next to Genesis Plus.
https://www.retrodev.com/blastem
Near’s accuracy-first SNES emulator line. The one other cores get measured against.
https://bsnes.dev
Original-media dumps with provenance. Preservation group, not a warehouse.
https://c64preservation.org
Regional shells, pack-ins, the same brick in another color. Imports as objects.
https://consolevariations.com
The incrementer that ate a decade. One page, no install.
https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker
Commodore Scene Database. Demos, tools, releases. The scene index, not a retail catalog.
https://csdb.dk
The DOSBox you actually run in 2026. CRT shaders, current hosts. You supply the discs you own.
https://www.dosbox-staging.org
Zarfhome. IF, toys, the list, and the rest of the Plotkin shelf.
https://eblong.com/zarf
Which emulator is accurate this year. Recommended cores per system.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com
The old debugger people still open. TAS, hex, PPU viewer. Accuracy is not Mesen; tools are why it stays.
https://fceux.com
The Neo-Geo (and a pile of other arcade) emulator that replaced FB Alpha. Nightlies on GitHub.
https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo
Active FreeJ2ME fork. AWT and libretro. Compatibility list and the Javadocs for Nokia / Siemens / Motorola APIs.
https://tasemulators.github.io/freej2me-plus
Commodore 8-bit user group page. The kind of club page Curlie actually kept.
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Nocash hardware doc. Every PPU register and then some.
https://problemkaputt.de/fullsnes.htm
SameBoy, BGB, Gambatte, mGBA. Which core is less wrong this year.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Game_Boy_emulators
Drag-and-drop Game Boy game maker. Exports a ROM you can run on SameBoy or flash to a cart.
https://www.gbstudio.dev
The shelf. LCD toys, knockoffs, Game & Watch through the 90s brick clones. Photos and the odd box.
https://www.handheldmuseum.com
Prototype and unreleased dumps with provenance. Documentation first.
https://hiddenpalace.org
The IF card catalog. Reviews, tags, and “play online” links into Parchment.
https://ifdb.org
The nonprofit under IFDB, the Archive, and the interpreters.
https://iftechfoundation.org
IA’s console collection page. Historical software library, not a warehouse storefront.
https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
Archived SWF collection. Play in the Archive player when the original host is gone.
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash
Which desktop and phone emulator is less wrong this year. FreeJ2ME-Plus, KEmulator nnmod, Loader, Squirrel.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/J2ME_emulators
Android emulator for .jar / .jad. 2D and Mascot Capsule 3D. F-Droid and GitHub. You supply the MIDlets you own.
https://github.com/nikita36078/J2ME-Loader
Later Flash portal. Achievements, badges, a lot of it still wrapped for a modern browser.
https://www.kongregate.com
Yabause fork aimed at Saturn accuracy and up-to-date Windows/Linux builds.
https://github.com/FCare/Kronos
Game database, reviews, the C64 site people have bookmarked since the 90s.
https://www.lemon64.com
Draw a line, sled down it. Original 2006 toy, still a web page.
https://www.linerider.com
Multi-system emulator; Saturn core is why a lot of people keep it installed.
https://mednafen.github.io
High-accuracy NES (and more) emulator. Windows / Linux / macOS. Community builds still moving.
https://www.mesen.ca
FBN project front. Arcade drivers, including AES/MVS.
http://neo-source.com
BootGod’s cartridge database. PCB photos, mapper, CIC, board revisions.
http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777
Homebrew and hardware research for NES / Famicom. Wiki, forums, the mapper bible.
https://www.nesdev.org
PPU, APU, mappers, FDS. If you write a cart or an emulator, you live here.
https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Nesdev_Wiki
Free Quake III-style arena. Frantic, local or net. The match this mood wants once the ear clips are on.
https://openarena.ws
Play a Z-machine or Glulx story in the tab. Drop a .z5 / .gblorb or follow an IFDB link.
https://iplayif.com
id, 1999. The rail and the rocket. OpenArena is the living client; this is the original.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena
Libretro frontend. One shell for Mesen, Genesis Plus, Beetle Saturn, Stella, VICE cores. You supply the images you own.
https://www.retroarch.com
Flash emulator in Rust. What Newgrounds and the Archive use so the SWF still runs.
https://ruffle.rs
High-accuracy DMG / CGB / Super Game Boy emulator. Boot ROMs of its own. You supply the cartridges you own.
https://sameboy.github.io
Genesis / Mega Drive magazine that never folded. Reviews, interviews, hardware features.
https://www.sega-16.com
Saturn forum and homebrew competitions. Still the English-language house for the system.
https://segaxtreme.net
Zarf’s hypertext MMO. Browser rooms, shared pages, closer to a MOO than a canvas game.
https://seltani.net
What they archive and why. Read it once so you know this is not a ROM shop.
https://www.smspower.org/Home/MissionStatement
Release lists, box variants, PCB notes. The SNES catalog site.
https://snescentral.com
Mega Drive hardware and homebrew forum. VDP threads that go for years.
https://spritesmind.net/forum
The 2600 emulator. Debugger, phosphor, every bankswitch scheme that still matters.
https://stella-emu.github.io
Unused code, proto maps, debug leftovers. Search by system. The wiki you open when a cart feels wrong.
https://tcrf.net
Versatile Commodore Emulator. C64, VIC-20, PET, Plus/4. The one you install first.
https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io
Journalist-owned games and internet culture site. Labor, platforms, and what comes after the press release.
https://aftermath.site
HPC:Factor SCL. Solitaire packs, TCPMP, the quick games and tools that still copy to a CF card.
https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl
Text adventures ported to the yellow brick. Beyond the Tesseract, Cave, Last City.
https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/cybiko
Original 8-bit and 16-bit game and demo music. No remixes. C64 through arcade.
https://www.kohina.com
LambdaMOO is a multiplayer text based VR with a lengthy history. authors, professors, thinkers and general users have logged in to explore. It's not mostly a shell full of embittered curmudgeons and LGBTQ activists.
telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888
Zelda music, all day. One franchise, one stream.
https://radiohyrule.com
Sega soundtracks, live DJs when they have them. Sonic through the later catalogs.
https://www.radiosega.net
Video-game music radio with a vote for the next track. Game, chiptune, OCR, covers.
https://rainwave.cc
Apogee’s surviving name. Duke, ROTT, Raptor, the 800-number that used to be on the shareware screen.
https://3drealms.com
1989. Color, backlight, Comlynx cable. First of the color bricks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx
Forums, homebrew, the catalog. The scene that did not die with Atari.
https://atariage.com/lynx
Boxed companion CDs and shareware compilations as retail SKUs. Limelight, Quantum Axcess, the jewel-case layer on top of the BBS episode.
https://elisoftware.org/wiki/Category:1994_DOS_Entertainment_Shareware
Bit Corporation, 1990. Taiwan. Four-shade LCD, tiny catalog, magazine ads next to the Game Boy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamate
DMG-01. April 1989 Japan, July US. Tetris pack-in. The brick the knockoffs copied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy
October 1998 Japan, November US. Color LCD, still plays the grey carts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Color
Japan-only, 1998. Backlit Pocket. Import, not a US SKU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Light
1996. Smaller shell, AAA cells, clearer screen. Same carts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy#Game_Boy_Pocket
1990 Japan, 1991 US. Backlit color, six AA cells, Master System cousin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear
Pandocs and toolchains. Already under game-boy; kept so this folder stands alone.
https://gbdev.io
1995 US. Portable Genesis, not a Game Gear. Six AA again. Import-shaped even at home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Nomad
DRM-free reissues of the boxed DOS line. The legal way to replace the jewel case that cracked in the Civic.
https://www.gog.com
Photo page for the tilting brick. Same house as the rest of the LCD pile.
https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Watara/Supervision.htm
Early-90s German brick. Small cart, small library. The Supervision’s cousin in the ads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Master_(console)
The other half of 1994. Wolf, Doom, Doom II that October. Official desk.
https://www.idsoftware.com
A gopher based list of IF, information and tools.
gopher://gopher.661.org:70/1/if-archive
The desktop emulator the homebrew scene still opens. Vendor APIs the clean-room cores have not finished.
https://nnproject.cc/kem
1993. Also Cougar Boy. Creatronic / Timlex. Z80, Game Boy-shaped carts that are not Game Boy carts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Duck
1998 Japan, monochrome. Color model is 1999 — this is the first shell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_Pocket
AES, MVS, Pocket. Forums and the hardware pile.
https://www.neo-geo.com
HuCard and CD catalog, including the GT / TurboExpress notes.
https://www.pcengine.co.uk
Hardware variants, release dates, the Japanese and PAL shells.
https://segaretro.org/Game_Gear
Model numbers, the screen, why it ate batteries.
https://segaretro.org/Genesis_Nomad
Master System and Game Gear docs, homebrew, music. The living desk.
https://www.smspower.org
Java ME 8 VM written to run old MIDP software on new iron. Fossil repo, libretro core, preservation first.
https://squirreljme.cc
1994 SNES cart that plays Game Boy. Not a handheld — the TV adapter the clones pretended to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy
1997. Touchscreen, modem, lights-out attempt at a PDA. Official, still a miss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com
1995. Head-mounted / wrist projector. LCD cart, red plastic. Not a Game Boy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Zone
NEC, 1990. PC Engine GT in Japan. HuCard handheld. The expensive one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboExpress
1995. Tabletop, red LED, not a pocket. In the window anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy
1992 Hong Kong. Also QuickShot (UK), Hartung (Germany), VideoJet (France). Tilting screen, TV link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervision_(handheld_game_console)
A family amusement center offering go-karts, miniature golf, games arcade. Information on location and group rates.
http://www.adventurehershey.com
Offers batting cages, bumper boats, paintball, miniature golf, sprint cars, water slides and arcade games. Provides map with photographs and details of the park, rates, and birthday party information.
https://blackbeards.com
2000 teen handheld. Hitachi H8, QWERTY stylus, two-way radio chat out to ~300 m. Games and a messenger in the same neon shell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko
The emulator most people mean. Games and the prompt.
https://www.dosbox.com
The MUCK server most live games run. MPI, MUF, and the MINK admin guide.
https://www.fuzzball.org
Lars Pensjö’s original LPMud line, still up. The ancestor a lot of LPC games still point at.
https://www.genesismud.org
Two-story bar, restaurant and game room featuring video games and pinball machines dating from the '70s through present day. Includes menu, list of games, and news.
http://groundkontrol.com
Holds an annual expo that features many classic arcade games. Offers information on past events and related links.
http://www.arcadecenter.com
CLDC, MIDP, MIDlets. The platform under every “Java games” menu on a candybar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Micro_Edition
Mariner's Arcade, arcade games, skeeball and progressive slots, redemption rules and photo gallery.
http://marinersarcade.com
International Arcade Museum. Killer List of Videogames. Cabinet identity, flyers, the page you check before you drive.
https://www.arcade-museum.com
A nickel arcade with pizza, video games, and games for children of all ages. Includes hours, location, and menu.
http://www.nickelmania.com
The MUSH server a lot of games still run. Softcode, functions, and Javelin’s god guide nearby.
https://pennmush.org
Node.js MUD engine. Bundle-based, scripted in JavaScript, meant for new games not 1994 ports.
https://ranviermud.com
Indoor amusement park featuring rides, bowling, arcade games, go-karts, soft play area for tots, and restaurant.
http://safarilandfun.com
Mall software. Babbage’s + Software Etc. + EB became GameStop. The rack that held the Apogee jewel cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage%27s
Gary Apple, 1999. Stupid Candy, Stupid Gifts, Stupid Games. The “stupid candy site.” Live domain later sold gag gifts; this capture is the original joke.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001019030127/http://stupid.com
Offers family activities including bowling, arcade games, miniature golf, a batting cage, go-karts, billiards and water wars. Includes rates, hours, activities, birthday party information and menus.
http://www.sunmountainfun.com
Indoor amusement park offering arcade games, pinball games, and rides. Information about hours, games, party packages, and pizza restaurant.
http://www.boardwalk-parkway.com
The name on the box. Current site; the soundtracks still do more cultural work than the later games.
https://tonyhawk.com
Retailer for new age items, new and used cds, dvds, games, books, piercing, posters, clothes and musical instruments.
http://www.tradingpostct.com
