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information about
your favorite yellow
dot.
Tons of links,
news, photos, and
general silliness will
keep you coming
back for more.
http://www.
geocities.com/
SoHo/Lofts/8112/
pac.htm
Esotek’s Tron
Archive
Super Pong Scott Skerchock’s
David Winter has created a Tron fan page fea-
site dedicated to the origins of tures regularly up-
Pong and Pong-like clones. This dated news, rare pic-
site offers an in-depth look at the tures, movie and
beginnings of videogames and game information, as
systems, and has plenty of interest- well as many free downloads.
ing historical facts, timelines, bios, Check out the “Toys” section to
and pictures to enhance your visit. get a good look at the extremely
And, for those of you who “parlez rare Tron action figures and the
Francais,” visit their mirrored Lightcycles.
French version! ClassicGaming.com http://users.aol.com/esotek/
http://superpong.8m.com “Gaming the way you remember tronmain.html
it” is ClassicGaming.com’s motto,
as they strive to reunite gamers
with their favorite games of old by Videogame Music Archive
way of emulation. “Do you know Frogger?”
The website, run by Kevin “No, but maybe if you hum a few
Atari 2600 Nexus “Fragmaster” Bowen, Jonathan bars. . .”
Created by Alex Bilstein, this “Harry Tuttle” Burtenshaw, and Till Here you can find many of
labor of love reveals “SYS2064” Oldemeyer, offers those hummable hits once only
everything you ever links to other sites with infor- heard in arcades, such as “Galaga
wanted to mation on classic videogames Intro” and the “Pitfall 2” theme, as
know and emulation, as well well as more contemporary hits
about as some more current from such games as Zelda: Oca-
the games such as rina of Time and Crash Bandicoot.
Atari Quake and Unreal. These musical bits have been
2600, They even offer recorded in the always quirky
including free “MIDI” format but
a rarity web- that injects all
guide; images of hardware, joy- hosting for sites new charm into
sticks, cartridge boxes, and labels; that fulfill certain them.
and a library with FAQ’s, reference, requirements and http://www.
history, maps, Easter eggs, and are related to clas- vgmusic.com/
more. The site also hosts a mes- sic videogames.
sage board, classified ads, and an http://www.
extremely extensive list of related classicgaming.
links. com/ Want your web-
Alex has put a lot of time and site to be consid-
effort into producing his website First Church ered for a listing
and has been recognized by many in this column?
for his hard work. of Pac-Man
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/ His eminence, the Reverend Just send us your
~bilstein/atari2600nexus/index. Shoebox, has created a site for all particulars. . .website URL, con-
html that is “Pac.” tact name, and a valid e-mail ad-
Updated regularly, you can be dress to cav@classicgamer.com
sure you are getting the freshest
CGM
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