The retro directory
The best places on the internet (and off it) for NES, Famicom and Super Nintendo people. Every listing is read by a person before it goes up. Run something good? Add it, and grab the badge for your site.
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A non-profit founded by Frank Cifaldi to save the stuff games leave behind: the magazines, the design documents, the source material. If you have ever wondered where the old paperwork goes, this is who is keeping it.
Added 10 Oct 2026 by Video Games Are Rad.
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Kurt Kalata started it in 2004 because there were plenty of strategy guides and not enough game history. Long, loving write-ups of the famous and the forgotten. Dangerous for your free afternoon.
Added 10 Oct 2026 by Video Games Are Rad.
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A wiki of everything that got left inside games without being used: unused levels, leftover debug menus, graphics nobody was meant to see. Pick any NES or SNES favourite and look it up.
Added 10 Oct 2026 by Video Games Are Rad.
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A crowd-built database of games and the people who made them, running since 1999. The place to find out who else your favourite composer or designer worked with.
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Guides, walkthroughs and message boards since November 1995. When you are stuck in a dungeon at midnight, somebody there was stuck in it in 1998 and wrote it all down.
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The British magazine that was the first commercial one devoted entirely to retro games, launched in 2004. Interviews with the people who made the games you grew up on.
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A whole museum about play in Rochester, New York, open to the public since 1982, with a serious video game collection. Worth the trip if you are ever in that part of the world.
Added 10 Oct 2026 by Video Games Are Rad.
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Events
Twice-yearly speedrun marathons for charity, held since 2010. Old favourites torn apart at impossible speed, with the runner talking you through every trick. Watch one SNES run and you will lose a weekend.
Added 10 Oct 2026 by Video Games Are Rad.
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