spong.com

Description: The Internet Computer Games Database

Newest Review: ... for enthusiasts to contribute that data, is it puts it in context. There are some excellent single-platform gaming sites, but SPonG creates links between developers and publishers and creating softographies for each individual coder, artist and musician, and letting you see what games a given company or individual has been involved with across platforms. It's a little known fact that ... more

... today's computer games industry was created when a group of programmers, tired of never being given any credit, split away from Atari to form Activision. Ironically, 30 years later we are again in a position where the people who actually make comp...more

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by - written on 26/02/03
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SPOnG is my video game heaven - Advantages: Loads of screens, packs and reviews, Links between games, the developers and the companies, Exclusive news - Disadvantages: Regularly sidetracked from what I'm originally looking for, Screen shots and artwork is a bit small, Doesn't offer downloads of old games

The most amazing games site (456 words)
by - written on 23/10/02 (Very useful, 504 readings)
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SPOnG is the most amazing games site I've ever seen. It attempts to catalogue every game ever released on every platform... another review here criticises it for having lots of titles listed with no information, but I think that review misses the point. SPOnG is a site built by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, and the people who run the site actively encourage visitors to the site to contribute. Most of the gaes they don't have content for are old 8-bit games, and while SPOnG might not have any information on a lot of these game, neither do most other sites. But what SPOnG does do, as well as providing a repository for enthusiasts to contribute that data, is ... Read the complete review

spong.com: A database of 30,000 games and still its useless... (316 words)
by - written on 23/06/01 (Useful, 173 readings)
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What happens when you take three guys who are major computer game fans and also professional website designers. You end up with a jam packed gaming information website called spong... Basically the website aims to document the entire history of the computer games industry. Including information on over 30,000 games past, present and future, plus game news, charts and a release date list. With a database containing 30,000 games I decided to put it to the test. I searched for "populous" and indeed it found all the populous games ever created for all the platforms. Very impressive I thought. But then I realised the unfortunate ... Read the complete review

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