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    Just a brief survey to see what General RetroGaming websites you guys visit. Been out of the circle for a while and thought this could be useful for me to get back into the game

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    Well, you really don't need ANYTHING more than Digital Press, but...

    Our "sister site", www.vidgame.net is webmistressed by our very own Adrienne "Achika" Barr.
    We love Earl's www.thelogbook.com.
    AtariAge.com is a wonderful resource. Good database of everything Atari.
    classicgaming.com covers pretty much everything that is classic, and does a good job of it.

    I'll let others take over from here, but these are the sites that I frequent because they're consistently informative and entertaining, though there are many others.

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    Moo-hoo ha ha ha...

    Start with www.classicgaming.com--I like a lot of their hosted sites that are game-specific, in the Games Worship section...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eternal Champion
    Moo-hoo ha ha ha...

    Start with www.classicgaming.com--I like a lot of their hosted sites that are game-specific, in the Games Worship section...
    I tend to keep away from Classicgaming.com because of all of the ads and popups.

    Gamespy is evil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griking
    I tend to keep away from Classicgaming.com because of all of the ads and popups.

    Gamespy is evil.
    Yeah, companies making money so their sites can stay on the Internet sure is evil!

    (Just so ya know: I work there. Ads may be annoying, but they pay the bills. Necessary evil.)

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    You might want to give us a look at Fatman Games. We do reviews, maintain fairly extensive databases for a ton of systems, have pics, info, etc. You can set up your entire game collection there too in an easy to modify format.

    Fatman Games

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    Quote Originally Posted by BenT
    (Just so ya know: I work there. Ads may be annoying, but they pay the bills. Necessary evil.)
    FYI BenT: I may not have said it recently (or at all) but I think you're a fantastic writer. Anytime you've posted one of your reviews for us to read here I read it, and I always come away feeling like I've learned something. That's a rare talent. Keep up the great work!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BenT
    Quote Originally Posted by Griking
    I tend to keep away from Classicgaming.com because of all of the ads and popups.

    Gamespy is evil.
    Yeah, companies making money so their sites can stay on the Internet sure is evil!

    (Just so ya know: I work there. Ads may be annoying, but they pay the bills. Necessary evil.)

    I can deal with the banner ads. Even a popup every now and then is tolerable. It's the large, flash ads spawn out of nowheres and cover the entire screen that encourages me never to return.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griking
    I can deal with the banner ads. Even a popup every now and then is tolerable. It's the large, flash ads spawn out of nowheres and cover the entire screen that encourages me never to return.
    Guess which ones are worth the most to advertisers? :/ But, oddly enough, we just introduced a new ad-free service today. I don't want to turn this post into an advertisement, so I'll just give you this link in case you might be interested. Ignore the horrible caricature.

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    After you've been to the big sites, may I humbly suggest le geek video game favorites it's mostly reviews from A2600 to N64...

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    Quote Originally Posted by le geek
    After you've been to the big sites, may I humbly suggest le geek video game favorites it's mostly reviews from A2600 to N64...
    I knew I'd be leaving great sites out.

    http://abscape.org/legeek/

    You definitely want to check out "le geek". Ben is that retrogaming spirit that other retrogaming sites think they're capturing.

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    Hey!!!, don´t forget Arqueología Digital, the unique and cool vg argentinean source...http://arquedigi.8m.com

    Enjoy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by digitalpress
    Quote Originally Posted by BenT
    (Just so ya know: I work there. Ads may be annoying, but they pay the bills. Necessary evil.)
    FYI BenT: I may not have said it recently (or at all) but I think you're a fantastic writer. Anytime you've posted one of your reviews for us to read here I read it, and I always come away feeling like I've learned something. That's a rare talent. Keep up the great work!
    He's also a damn fine editor who makes my text almost bearable.

    -- Z.

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    I can't moan about Game Spy and specifically Classic Gaming, they've both been excellent for hosting "The Black Moon Project" and BenT smoothed the way for it to happen. A very helpful guy who I can't thank enough

    Keep the list of General RetroGaming sites coming, I need to know which websites to send my News Bulletin to for a major article that will be published very soon. Which should be of interest to you lot even if it is on the Philips CD-i platform!!

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    Don't forget The Gameroom Blitz! It's not strictly a retrogaming site, but there's plenty of classic gaming coverage because I'm more interested in the older systems than the newer ones.

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