Video Game Archives

Video Game Archives

Archival Research

Preserving Virtual Worlds - A multi-instution research project investigating archiving video games and interactive fiction.

Gameplay and ROM archives

Internet Archives - Video Game Captures
MAME - Wikipedia entry on MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Describes technical and legal issues related to running emulated copies of vintage video games.

Manuals and Descriptive Material

Moby Games - A catalog/database of descriptive information about electronic games. Read more here.
ReplacementDocs - A database of video game manuals and artwork.

Physical Archives

National Videogame Archive - "The National Videogame Archive is a joint project between the National Media Museum and Nottingham Trent University, which aims to celebrate that culture and preserve that history for researchers, developers, game fans and the public."
UT Videogame Archive - The University of Texas at Austin video game archive, part of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.