syltefar.com: references
These are the primary references used the most to write the contents of this website. These might serve as a good starting point for game history researchers.
Release and Developer Information
MobyGames
A database with box art, screenshots, credits, and release information for games on all platforms. Syltefar has used MobyGames extensively for research, box art, and screenshots.
Founded in 1999 by Jim Leonard and Brian Hirt, edited by a volunteer community.
MobyGames was purchased by Atari in 2021.
Active: 1999-now
Wikipedia
Wikipedia's information about releases, genres, and the history of specific games has been useful for this site. In return, a couple of Wikipedia articles were started by Syltefar, and a couple of errors fixed.
Created in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
Active: 2001-now
Giant Bomb
Has a community-edited wiki games database with box art, screenshots, release information, descriptions, tags, and reviews.
Founded in 2008 by Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis, formerly of Gamespot
Giant Bomb was purchased by Fandom in 2022, together with GameSpot, Metacritic, GameFAQs, and Comic Vine.
Active: 2008-now
Hall Of Light
A comprehensive database of Amiga games with box art, screenshots, manual scans, and reviews.
Founded in 2001 by RCK
Active: 2001-now
The International Arcade Museum (IAM)
Database of pinball, electro-mechanical, and electronic arcade games, and a database of arcade game flyers.
In 1991, the Killer List Of Videogames (KLOV) was maintained by Mike Hughey. This would gradually become the Arcade Museum database.
Owned by WebMagic Ventures
Active: 1991-now
PSX Data Center
A comprehensive database of PSX games with box art, screenshots, including Japan-only releases.
Started November 29th, 2007 by CRX
Active: 2007-now
Other Information
Hardcore gaming 101
Articles about obscure older games and game series, tagged with genres, platforms, and developers, great for discovering new old games.
Created by Kurt Katala in 2004.
Active: 2004-now
SHMUPS
Reviews of classic shoot 'em ups.
Created in 1997 by Malcolm Laurie
Active: 1997-now
HowLongToBeat
A game database with community-provided game length statistics.
Owned by Ziff Davis
Active: 2011-now
Hardware Information
System 16: The Arcade Museum
System 16 has information about arcade hardware, categorized by manufacturer, and lists of games per arcade hardware architecture.
Founded in 1999 by Toby Broyad.
Active: 1999-now
Game ROM Images
The Internet Archive
ROMs and disk images for old games
Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
Active: 1996-now
ROMhacking.net
Translations and other ROM hacks
Founded in 2005? by Nightcrawler
Active: 2005?-now
Composer Information
Exotica
Composer and technical replay information for Amiga games.
Founded in 1997 by Jools Wills
Active: 1997-now
VGMdb
Composer information
Secret Squirrel (?)
Walkthroughs and Guides
GameFAQs
Walkthroughs, passwords, cheat codes
Founded as the 'Video Game FAQ Archive' by Jeff Veasey in 1995.
GameFAQs was purchased by Fandom in 2022, together with GameSpot, Metacritic, Giant Bomb, and Comic Vine.
Active: 1995-now
StrategyWiki
Walkthroughs and guides
Created in 2005 by Brandon Suit/echelon
Active: 2004-now
FextraLife
Wiki, walkthroughs and guides for RPGs, especially focused on FromSoftware's games.
Fandom
Community-edited wikis for a wealth of game franchises, previously known as Wikicities or Wikia.
Founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling in 2004
Active: 2004-now
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