Video Game Archives

University of Illinois Library Collection

• Vintage Gaming Collection Development policy and Description

Archival Research

• Preservin g 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.