revned – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Sun, 29 Oct 2023 04:36:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png revned – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 More Game Map Sites https://setsideb.com/more-game-map-sites/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=4186 Continue reading "More Game Map Sites"]]> We’re still searching for old game info sites that are still up in 2023. Another couple of use are Video Game Maps, last updated in 2007 but still available, and Revned’s Video Game Maps, which saw its last edit in 2016, but is mirrored on Github.

It feels, to me, like this is what the World Wide Web should look like, flat, static HTML pages with sidebars and hyperlinks. A thing of beauty.

For the past 20 years it’s felt like any game information you could ever hope to find is out there on the World Wide Web, somewhere, but as both the people who grew up playing these games grow old, and the drive and motivation to start and maintain websites has diminished with the popularity of social media, this is increasingly no longer the case. Sometimes you can find vanished websites on the Wayback Machine, but it’s a lot harder to find things there, Wayback often misses images, their web archives are often incomplete, and server-side scripts are broken by archiving so dynamic content is usually dead, the page contents locked in the state it was at when the time of archival.

VGM: Maps and Strategies! and Revned’s Video Game Maps

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