Welcome to the WikiProject Video games Reference Library, a directory for sources to use when editing articles about video games. This library provides specialty guidance for print materials, defunct websites, and other sources that are offline, inaccessible, or otherwise difficult to find through traditional search engine methods.
Search for topics here in the Reference Library. If a topic is mentioned somewhere in this Reference Library, this search will bring up those pages.
Can't find what you're looking for? Place a request. For best results, post requests at
WT:VG. You can also place requests for a general audience at
WP:REREQ.
How to contribute
Anyone can edit this page (or subpages) to improve the reference library. You do not need permission.
If you have print sources to share, you can list yourself as a contact for those materials so editors may contact you with requests. It helps to list out the games and topics discussed in the source as well. To donate materials, consider sending to the
Video Game History Foundation.
Feel free to add this userbox to your userpage with the code {{User WPCVGm}}
WP:VG/RLOnline website archive – Archival links for websites that are now defunct, or those that received major renovations or purged much of their old material.
WP:VG/RLOnline print archive – Many print video game magazines used to host their printed articles and reviews on the internet, but have since removed them. This page lists archival links for when they had these articles available.
By doing a Google search with site:archive.org/stream, you can search the text contents of scanned magazines (note: OCR is not perfect and typos frequently appear)
Arcade Flyer Archive at the International Arcade Museum. Flyers for arcade and pinball machines suitable for non-free cover art on respective articles.
Welcome to the WikiProject Video games Reference Library, a directory for sources to use when editing articles about video games. This library provides specialty guidance for print materials, defunct websites, and other sources that are offline, inaccessible, or otherwise difficult to find through traditional search engine methods.
Search for topics here in the Reference Library. If a topic is mentioned somewhere in this Reference Library, this search will bring up those pages.
Can't find what you're looking for? Place a request. For best results, post requests at
WT:VG. You can also place requests for a general audience at
WP:REREQ.
How to contribute
Anyone can edit this page (or subpages) to improve the reference library. You do not need permission.
If you have print sources to share, you can list yourself as a contact for those materials so editors may contact you with requests. It helps to list out the games and topics discussed in the source as well. To donate materials, consider sending to the
Video Game History Foundation.
Feel free to add this userbox to your userpage with the code {{User WPCVGm}}
WP:VG/RLOnline website archive – Archival links for websites that are now defunct, or those that received major renovations or purged much of their old material.
WP:VG/RLOnline print archive – Many print video game magazines used to host their printed articles and reviews on the internet, but have since removed them. This page lists archival links for when they had these articles available.
By doing a Google search with site:archive.org/stream, you can search the text contents of scanned magazines (note: OCR is not perfect and typos frequently appear)
Arcade Flyer Archive at the International Arcade Museum. Flyers for arcade and pinball machines suitable for non-free cover art on respective articles.