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Looking for an archive of games

by Marvin Hawkins · in General Discussion · 02/07/2005 (8:14 am) · 8 replies

Hello all,

I'm looking for a beat all end all website thats almost like an encylopedia of all the computer games ever created. I did find one such site before. It didn't have all the games ever made but it had a lot. Anybody know of such a site. and are there any urls that have data on how much a said game made. I know about the NPD sales charts from gamasutra. but how long do they keep that info?
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
02/07/2005 (8:23 am)
Hmmm. GameFAQs has a lot, including Japanese, Korean, and European releases. And I've added a lot of game data myself for odd titles like Uncharted Waters III, which was only released on the PC in Japan. It's not comprehensive, but there's a lot of games there. That doesn't mean that there's a lot of data on those games, though. IGN has a number of them listed from when they were partnered with GameFAQs before Snowball started snowballing. Gamespot's has a LOT of holes. They've been trying to update to the amount of info that GameFAQs has, but it's a growth issue.

Another place to find uncommon information on older games is abandonware and emulation sites. I don't promote them, but there's a lot there to fit in the gaps.

And there are a LOT of gaps to fill.

Torque Owner Nauris Krauze
#2
02/07/2005 (3:34 pm)
Home of the Underdogs is your friend, especially if you are looking for..well..underdogs.

Torque Owner Roger Delgado
#3
02/07/2005 (6:33 pm)
This site might not be what you're looking for but take a peek. :-) www.liberatedgames.com

Torque Owner Dave Meier
#4
02/07/2005 (7:45 pm)
My all time favorite is "Ultima Underworld".

I found this site that list best games: www.watson.org/~tesla/games.html

Torque 3D Owner Jay Barnson
#5
02/07/2005 (9:45 pm)
Oh, man, another UU fan.

That was one of many games that totally changed me. There were like four games in a row from Origin that warped me horrendously and made me decide that I wanted to actually make games professionally: Wing Commanders I and II, Ultima 7, and Ultima Underworld.

I actually wanted to go work for Origin at one point based upon those games.

Torque Owner Dave Meier
#6
02/07/2005 (10:18 pm)
Jay,

That's really cool that Underworld and the other Origin games had such an effect on you. It came out the year I got married (1992) and my wife Claire and I played UU together for up 18 hours a day at one point! Gotta love the real-time aspect of it (1 hour in game == 1 hour in real life). For us, it was the game that inspired us to design our own game also...

I came across another site that lists all time best PC Games - UU made number 5 on this list:
pc.ign.com/articles/082/082403p1.html

Torque Owner Craig Ball
#7
02/08/2005 (12:26 am)
Moby Games is a pretty good archive. It lists loads of games, and you can filter them by category, year, genre etc.

Torque Owner Marvin Hawkins
#8
02/08/2005 (7:36 pm)
Awesome moby games rocks
but i'm suprised by some of the missing games, maybe thats whyo you can add your own titles. Where's Choaniki: legend of holy protien.......?