Retro gaming links and reference sources
No single archive covers this subject. These are the sites that hold what this one does not, and each was checked on the date given rather than copied from an older list.
Machine and publisher archives
Every address below was requested on 31 July 2026 and the page that came back was read.
These are the deep specialists. Each covers one machine or one publisher far more thoroughly than a general archive can, and where this site's entries touch their territory they are the better source.
- Acorn Electron World — demos, games and programs for the Electron, and the most complete single-machine resource this archive links to.
- Superior Interactive — the company continuing the Superior Software name, and the current source for the Repton conversions.
- Yolkfolk — a long-running fan archive devoted to the Dizzy series.
- RGB Classic Games — a substantial archive of early personal-computer games, maintained for decades.
Studios still trading
The studios below appear in this archive's entries and were still answering when last checked. They are listed because a reader who wants a game should be sent to whoever actually sells it.
- Puppy Games — the studio behind Titan Attacks, still trading with the game's own page live.
- Winter Wolves — an independent studio from the same period that came through it intact.
- AnaWiki Games — another survivor of the direct-sales years.
Why a links page still earns its place
A links page is an unfashionable thing, and for a subject like this it remains one of the most useful pages on a site. The material is spread across single-machine archives, publisher sites, fan projects and shops, almost all of them run by one person, and none of them appears reliably in a search for a game name. A reader who wants the deepest available source is better served by a short list of people who actually hold the material.
It also does something an index cannot. Listing a machine archive alongside a publisher and a shop shows how the subject is actually divided up: who holds the software, who holds the rights, and who holds the hardware. That division is the practical map of this field, and it is not visible from any one of those sites on its own.
The trade, and a note on link rot
- Console Passion — a United Kingdom retro games shop dealing in original hardware and cassettes.
This list is short on purpose. A links page inherited from the 2000s is normally a field of dead addresses, and a long list of them is worse than a short list of live ones. Rather than carry forward every address this site once pointed at, each was requested and only those that answered with the site they were supposed to be are here.
That check caught something worth stating. Among the addresses this site once linked to, at least one now answers perfectly normally and serves a completely unrelated commercial operation, because the registration lapsed and somebody else bought it. A status code of 200 is not evidence that a link still goes where it once went, which is why every entry in this archive that turns on an outbound address says when the page behind it was last read.
Questions about the links
How were these links checked?
Each address was requested directly on 31 July 2026, redirects were followed to their destination, and the page that came back was read to confirm it was still the site it was supposed to be.
Why is the links page so short?
Because dead links are worse than absent ones. Rather than carrying forward a list assembled in the 2000s, every address was re-checked and only those that still resolve to the intended site are listed.
Can I ask for a link to be added?
Yes, through the contact page. Sites that hold material this archive does not — a single machine, a single publisher, a specific fan project — are the most useful additions.