This is the links section, containing some of my favorite websites. They're arranged juuust closely enough to alphabetical order that it will annoy you when you notice non-alphabetically sorted entries, but not enough to complain about it.
Warning: The internet contains content. Most of these sites are at a PG-level, but some random PG-13s and an R or two pop up here and there, mostly in the webcomics. I once planned on adding a ratings system of some sort eventually, but... y'know, life video games and all. Have fun playing Russian Roulette with your brain!
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Anti-Monday Association- This was one of the first websites I found when I was new to the internet back in high school and it made a big impression on me with it's goofy sense of humor. I modeled this website after the AMA page in a lot of ways, and even contributed some stories to them in their later days. It's long dead to the point that many of the images that gave it some of its charm are gone, but what's left is still worth a look.
Adeptsoftware.com- Jetpack is a classic arcade-style game for MS-DOS that features a powerful level editor. It was one of my favorite games for years and will always play a central role on this website. There's also a sequel that finally came out in 2017 after over a decade of development hell, though I don't have as much knowledge about that.
BOGOZONE- This is the personal site of Nic Destefano. It is where you can download Lyle in Cube Sector, a fun Metroidvania-type game that takes the block-throwing mechanic from the old NES Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers game to fun new places.
Cave Story- One of the early classics of indie gaming, it still holds up to this day. There are countless ports by Nicalis that add assorted extra features, but Nicalis is a scummy company imo and there's little reason to support them when the original is free and developer Pixel has moved on to other games anyway. Here are a couple of additional links swiped from Wikipedia:
Pixel's Website- Pixel is the 1-man army that developed Cave Story using nothing more than blood, sweat, tears, and five years of free time.
LiveJournal Cave Story community- If anything related to Pixel happens, his fans will find it and it will end up here. The site is pretty much dead now, but the archives are a great read for the more obsessive fans of Cave Story since it hosts translations of the journal Pixel used to keep on his site, providing fascinating insight into the development of his Cave Story followup Guxt.
EYEZMAZE- Contains a wide variety of toy-like games that are fun to fiddle around with. If you go to this page, you can find Tontie, a whack-a-mole type game that's quite fun and gets brutally difficult.
Sixlegs.com- A simple site. The main reason to come here is to download Watch Out Willi, a fun BoulderDash clone. There's also an online Java version.
Z2- The community website for ZZT, the Game Creation Software (GCS) that was the first release of Epic Megagames, which would eventually go on to create Unreal. This game brought unprecedented power of creation to countless kids and blew my mind when I played it back in the day. The community itself is mostly dead but there is a massive archive of games, some of which are even good!
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Museum of ZZT- A massive website by ZZTer Dr. Dos, the Museum contains a game archive even more thorough than that of Z2, along with a variety of other useful downloads. I recommend the Closer Look articles which analyze assorted notable (or not) ZZT worlds in extreme detail.
ZZT Ultra- An enhanced version of ZZT that features massively improved scripting that can do all kinds of things not possible in standard ZZT, and is also backwards compatible. It can't play every ZZT world perfectly but is both much faster and easier than emulating ZZT in DOSBox, making it a viable way to play the game. Here's a version that runs on HTML5 instead of Flash; for some reason it hasn't been linked to on the main website yet.
The Cutting Room Floor- A wiki devoted to those deleted parts of video games that are still present in code but can't normally be accessed, TCRF gives a cool window in the video game development process. Also has articles comparing video game prototypes to their final releases, and 'pre-release' articles showcasing content previewed in video game magazines or elsewhere that never made it into the final game at all.
Legends of Localization- This site examines the differences between English video game translations and the original Japanese, showing the tricky work involved in making a non-garbage translation.
Lost Levels- This site devotes itself to stories about video games that for one reason or another were never released. News about prototypes and unfinished games fascinates me. The Earthbound and Sonic X-Treme articles in particular are worth checking out, although most of this site's golden.
The Sardius Experience- He writes things. Things about video games and their history, especially those of the 'so bad it's good' type. The article on Johnny Turbo in particular is some mind-blowing stuff that will change your outlook on life. I also found the CGE articles pretty fascinating.
Dream and Friends- Sardius/Danny Cowan's follow-up site to The Sardius Experience, this contains more of his good word writings of video. Games.
