Hunt the Wumpus      scv.bu.edu/cgi-bin/wcl
Online update of the venerable computer classic, with graphics AND a multiplayer element. You smell a Wumpus. You feel a draught. You shoot your arrow. Oh no, you just shot some other poor son of a bitch on the Net!

Impossible Mission Walkthrough      www.textfiles.com/adventure/impossiblemis.sol
Go to this site if you dare! If you're like me, you played the dickens out of this puppy but never actually broke this classic C-64 game's back, as its puzzle component is commonly regarded as the hardest game ever conceived. This is a complete breakdown of how to beat the game, complete with descriptions of all the rooms, how to solve the damned puzzle, and how to actually find Atombender.

INFOCOM      www.csd.uso.ca/~pete/Infocom/
The launching point for all things Infocom, computer game pioneers. Includes available downloads of the original three Zorks for the PC.

The Unofficial Epyx/SummerGames Homepage      www.fomalhaut.de/c64.shtml
Good site for information on this classic computer game, and the company that made it. Features a history of Epyx, along with an interview with Stephen Landrum, head programmer of Summer Games. 

Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Pages      www.trs-80.com/
A superlative collection of images, information, emulators and disk images concerning the Tandy computer classics.

Jocksitter Dragon's Ultima Collection Page      www.netassoc.net/ultima/
An amazing collection of rare products pertaining to computerdom's greatest RPG, with many quality image scans featured.

MobyGames      www.mobygames.com
Incredible, ongoing database of classic (and recent) computer games, along with lots of box cover images, screen shots, technical info, and interesting trivia tid-bits. Add your own entries, rate the games that are there, read informative articles, and enjoy.

The MUD Connector      www.mudconnect.com
Your catalogue for the plethora of Multi User Dungeons that exist on the net. This is still a thriving gaming scene on the Internet, and this is how you find 'em.  Not only provides a list, but reviews as well.

'Official' Castle Smurfenstein Home Page      evlweb.eecs.uic.edu/aej/smurf.html
Can you prevent a diabolical scheme to rule the world with Smurfs? Dear God, I hope so!!! Check out this hilarious Apple II disk image, playable with an Apple II emulator. If you haven't figured it out already, it's a parody of the classic Castle Wolfenstein. Also available from Dead Smurf Software...Dino Smurfs.

The Oldskool PC      www.oldskool.org
Great resource for PC retro-computing. Offers guides to running old software, classic computer shrines, an article archive and more.

Richard A. Bartle: Entry Point      www.mud.co.uk/richard
Homepage for the co-creator of the original Multi User Dungeon. Gives a very nice insider's history of MUD, and all of the versions thereof.

Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset      www.wiw.org/~jess/roger.html
Roger Wilco: lover of women, fighter of intergalactic evil, mopper of floors. Get the goods on computer gamedom's coolest custodial engineer, star of Sierra's popular Space Quest adventure game series, at this definitive site.

Scott Adams Grand Adventures (S.A.G.A.)      www.msadams.com/index.htm
Lots of great stuff here.  What more would you expect from the author of the first microcomputer text adventure?

Sid Meier's Civilization IV      www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=6#
The Civilization series of turn-based strategy games needs no introduction, but damn it, here's one anyway. Commonly regarded as some of the greatest computer games ever produced, they and their illustrious creator Sid Meier and his long-time programmer Brian Reynolds have risen to the top of the field, and if not created the genre, then masterfully re-worked and re-formed it into crack-like addiction for strategy gamers across the world. As another Game God Will Wright has gotten closer and closer to approximating and enhancing the mundane living of life with his SIM series, Meier's Civ games, including the awesomely ground-breaking Alpha Centauri, have allowed armchair Napoleons to come the closest they can ever get to personally fighting the sweeping battles of past empires and future societies. They transcend the limitations of simulated battle and empire-building in the confines of a computer to become something of wit, intelligence, complexity and above all, fun. From what we've seen in the very advance publicity for CivIII, it looks to again prove that in a market swamped by copy-catitis and me-tooism, the Meier name continues to be a beacon of quality and truly original gaming.  UPDATE:  This game rocks!!!! UPDATE II: And now we have CivIV, which will make the jump to full 3D graphics, as well as some serious gameplay tuning and what should be a viable multiplayer system right out of the box.

World of M.U.L.E.      www.worldofmule.net/tiki-index.php?PHPSESSID=jj5b2cfd49n3mkfrq6tg7n3tb5
An enormous tribute page to one of the greatest multiplayer games ever created.

The Font Pool      www.fontpool.com/
The search for the perfect font for a job is a personal thing, fraught with personal whims and fancies of the page in question...um....and...ah, forget it, just go here, they have over 1000 fonts in 11 categories. With the very handy option of determining the text and size of the provided font previews.

HTML Goodies      www.htmlgoodies.com
A great site for tutorials and examples of coding webpages, including a large repository of javascripts.

Web Page Design for Designers      www.wpdfd.com
Terrific articles detailing the solutions for everyday problems encountered designing web pages, explained in a forthright manner.

WebReference.com      www.webreference.com
Offering advanced web design tutorials and javascripts.

Alien III Script, William Gibson Draft    www.awesomefilm.com/script/Alien3.txt
The saddest phrase in the English language: What might have been. So read this, a version of Alien III by famed Neuromancer author William Gibson, commissioned, then rejected, by the studio. Then just pretend with all your might that they went with this one instead of the awful monstrosity we ended up with. 

Arrow in the Head    www.joblo.com/arrow
With a title like that, you can make a fairly safe bet that the site isn't reviewing Christian movies.  And you'd be right, its focus is genre flicks, with a major in horror films.  Funny, entertaining and yes, even informative. 

AtomFilms      www.atomfilms.com
An invaluable repository for some of the world's greatest short films, offering dozens and dozens of choices available for streaming download. Features both animated and live-action fare, most under ten minutes, and spotlights such brilliant filmmakers as Bill Plympton, he of the undisputed animated classic "25 Ways to Quit Smoking".

The Cavalcade of Schlock      www.geocities.com/tyrannorabbit/index.html
What else is the Net good for, if not sites with fascinating text interspersed with random, but somehow fitting, images? Too bad the Web is littered with these pesky sites that focus on brilliant content over slick, ultimately empty commercial flash! How is a burgeoning information delivery system to support its own bloated, meaningless excess? Now. Where was I? Oh yeah, this is a cool movie review site.

CHUD - Cinematic Happenings Under Development     www.chud.com
Rapidly supplanting Dark Horizons and Harry Knowles' Aint it Cool News as the site du jour for advance word on what's coming soon to a theatre near you.  Plus, unlike AICN, this site is tightly designed, presented with polish and well-written.  Nothing against Knowles, his fanboy drooling was a refreshing change from empty studio-sponsored commercial review sites.  CHUD displays excitement and anticipation for its wares, sure, but it doesn't jump over that line into rabid fanboydom.  

Cinescape Online      www.cinescape.com
The second most incredible genre movie site ever created, companion to the great tree-killer version; serving up early news, reviews and pictures to peruse.

Drew's Script-O-Rama      www.script-o-rama.com
Saw The Matrix, and thought "Hell, I can write a better script than that!"? Well, good luck to ya, buddy! But for anyone else who might want see some examples of the craft, check out this large list of links to movie screenplays online. Has tonnes of TV script links too.

Eyes Wide Shut      www.eyeswideshut.com
All the behind the scenes info and plot rumours that reclusive director Stanley Kubrick usually allowed to escape from his sets.

The Internet Movie Database      us.imdb.com
Started by a bunch of students, now an incredible source of online filmography info. Covers just a bit over a metric tonne of movie info. This site is the sole reason I jumped through hoops back in the early 90's to get on the Internet.

The Internet Movie Script Database      www.imsdb.com
A ginormous movie script site, with a breathtakingly familiar name.

Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension      jabootu.com
As far as I'm concerned, the best bad movie site on the net. Because it has a great sense of picking out the very best of the very worst flicks, and provides lengthy, and hilarious, tirades on them. The first review I read here was for the 1982 Barry Bostwick vehicle MegaForce, which provides ample evidence that we were lucky as a species to come out of the eighties alive.

Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies      www.mrcranky.com/
From The Abyss to Zorro, Cranky hates them all. Christ, the guy even pans Star Wars! Then again, I don't know who's crazier...Mr. Cranky, or the gang of misfits who regularly post in his message boards.

montypythonlg.mov      static.hugi.is/misc/movies/montypythonlg.mov
Monty Python done in Lego, anybody? Anybody?                                      .....humph!

MovieFlix      www.movieflix.com
This site has so much going for it...finding a site like this is what makes the hunt through all of the useless, lame commercial pay-sites worthwhile. It offers hundreds of full-length, realplayer streaming movies, all for the low low price of bupkiss. Just pick a genre, click the movie and connection type you have (narrow or broad band), and then sit back and enjoy as the server dishes out your selection with no stuttering at all. The catch? All of the movies are either independently produced, or of an aging, B movie nature. But there are plenty of classics to find here, and some of my viewings there have consisted of Things to Come, Suspiria, The Asylum, The Last Man on Earth, A Boy and His Dog and Metropolis...to name but a few.  UPDATE: Unfortunately, this site has gone over to a gravely unfortunate "pay to play" scheme where you have to subscribe to see about 90 percent of what they offer.  Too bad.  Still a couple good flicks available for free viewing tho.

Rotten Tomatoes      www.rottentomatoes.com
This really has to be one of the more thorough, and well put-together, movie review sites on the net. It offers the most reviews for every new release, usually around 100 or so for the big movies, even though you probably don't really care what the Cleveland Plains-Dealer or St. Paul Pioneer Press thinks. Even with this sometimes baffling amount of information, everything is categorized and shrunk down to easy-to-digest statistics. I especially like their system of culling all of the advance internet buzz from sites like Ain't It Cool News and Dark Horizons, to give you a pretty good signpost of an upcoming movie's quality.

The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review      www.moria.co.nz/index.htm
As the title says, a collection of genre movie reviews.  Well thought-out, entertaining reads that put most commercial movie reviewers to shame with their honesty and insight.

The Sci-Fi Movie Page      http://www.scifimoviepage.com/index.html
A simply great SF movie review site, sporting hundreds of concise, honest reviews of both classics and more recent fare.

Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker      pages.prodigy.com/kubrick
The best source of information on the web about Stanley Kubrick, maker of some of the greatest films of all time. Concise biography and filmography, with many production stills and audio clips.

Star Wars: Welcome to the Official Site      www.starwars.com/
No guff, right? Contains an amazing amount of behind-the-scenes info on the making of the new trilogy set. Has info not just on the new movies, but the books, games, comics, and the original films. Get here and get excited.

THEFORCE.NET      www.theforce.net/
Awesome fansite, which tracks news on the new prequels and other Star Warsian info like a Corellian Swamp Hound. It's also the home of Troops, an incredible and hilarious SW parody video melding TV reality show Cops with Imperial Stormtroopers.

Trailervision      www.trailervision.com/
Trailers for movies that don't exist...but should. Excellent production values, hilarious storylines, and no-holds-barred content make for streaming video mayhem.

Underman's 2001      www.underview.com/2001.html
Exhaustive study of Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Welcome to Colony LV-426        members.tripod.com/CORP_HICKS/main.html
Terrific site dedicated to the great Alien movie series.  Now if only an angry xenomorph would jump out of the storage locker and eat those goddamn Tripod pop-ups.

WEHT.net      www.weht.net
A giant compilation of all those "What ever happened to..." former celebrities.

WORDPLAY/Archives/Screenplay - Sandman      www.wordplayer.com/archives/SANDMAN.intro.html
I heard a couple years back about this project, and I was looking forward to seeing it make it to the theatres, being a huge fan of the gothic comic series by the great Neil Gaiman. Seems the project is in turnaround now, though, as this script approved by Gaiman himself has been rejected by Warner Brothers. Oh well, we can at least read what it was gonna be like.

The 100 Greatest Comics of the 20th Century     www.geocities.com/mbrown123
100 great moments in a much misunderstood medium.  Very well-written and intelligently compiled.  Follow the links at the bottom to some of the author's other works, it's all good.

Amazon.com      www.amazon.com
What can I say, it's the biggest bookstore on Earth. This is what all web-based commerce should be like: in-depth, interesting and interactive.

The Brick Testament      www.thebricktestament.com/index.html
Compelling stuff. Bible chapters illustrated through Lego. Very clever in its design and execution.

Dick's MAD STUFF, The Basics of Mad Collecting      www.collectmad.com/collectibles/basics.htm
I'm not sure why suddenly I feel the need to add all these links pertaining to MAD magazine.  Probably it's because I was a voracious reader of the rag growing up, and it helped me form the hard, cynical shell I've carefully constructed around my personality over the years, allowing the boiling magma of my hatred towards the world to remain undetected before the time comes to lay my vengeance upon society.  Er, anyway, this site features a cornucopia of MAD paraphernalia, including an amazing Pre-Mad section that shows just how prevalent the image of the nameless idiot was in various forms before being adopted by the MAD creators and dubbed "Alfred E. Neuman".  

The Discworld of Terry Pratchett      www.geocities.com/Area51/1777/
Discworld author Terry Pratchett fanclub. I like this site because it has a simple Pratchett bibliography, including little personal blurbs on each book, written by an actual person and not some publisher PR agent.

Doug Gifford's Mad Cover Site      www.collectmad.com/madcoversite
An archive of every Mad Magazine cover, along with plenty of information on general MADness as well.  Ecchh!

Douglasadams.com      www.douglasadams.com/
The official website of the author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the greatest book ever come out of the great publishing companies of Ursa Minor. Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike getting smashed in the head by a lemon wrapped around a gold brick.  UPDATE: Douglas Adams sadly left us in 2001.  So long Doug, and thanks for all the laughs.

Floor 42      www.floor42.com/
Finally, the answer to life, the universe, and everything. But what is the question?

Horrorking.com's Stephen King Page - Your Ultimate Stephen King Guide      www.horrorking.com/index.html
Lots of information here about one of our greatest living writers, and about all the stories that have made him so.  The highlight of the site, for me anyway, are the character indexes for every book. 

The L-Space Web      web.archive.org/web/20050207090437/http://www.us.lspace.org
And I thought MY site had a goofy name. However, this is the end-all and be-all of Terry Pratchett sites on the web. He's author of the great Discworld fantasy novels...think J.R. Tolkein meets Douglas Adams. Update: Too good to lose, the link now points to the Internet Archive cached version of the site.

Marek Vit's Kurt Vonnegut Corner      www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/vonn.html
Great fansite of the great literary cynicist, in my opinion the finest writer who ever lived. Features some terrific images from the author's life, as well as the Kilgore Trout Sci-Fi Collection, containing both original and amateur Trout stories (including the chance to submit your own). While you're there, click on the Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum, which will whisk you away to some other awesome Vonnegut sites, including a new middle-name generator a la Slapstick. Tell them William Muskellunge-14 Hunter sent you.

The Official Stephen King Web Presence      www.stephenking.com
Up to The Dark Half, this guy wrote some of my favourite books. After that he lost it for me...but he's recently gotten back on track with Bag of Bones, his latest and I would say best book he's written in ten years. This is his 'official' site, so the info is barely above advertising propaganda, but it does have a very succinct bio written in part by his wife Tabitha, as well as a lot of goofily posed portraits of King, who let's face it...looks pretty goofy already.

Ad Critic      www.adcritic.com
Gigabytes of TV commercials offered up for streaming Quicktime viewing highlights this site. Doesn't really offer a lot of criticism, but it does feature a handy Top 10 list, and profiles the latest ads to hit the airwaves. UPDATE: Guess what, AdCritic became a paysite. So unless you have 100 bucks US to shell out, best to look elsewhere to check out the latest ads...

'boards - Screening Room      www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials
...like here. The online equivalent of 'boards, an avant garde advertising magaine, here you'll find plenty of the coolest ads currently playing, all at the glorious price of bupkiss.

The Box...A Homicide: Life on the Street page      userweb.suscom.net/~homicide/thebox.htm
Extensive coverage of NBC's now-cancelled cop series. It even covers the "Homicide Live!" stage show that cast members performed for charity for several years.

Buck-Rogers.com - The Buck Rogers Web Site      www.buck-rogers.com
This entry could have shown up under the movie or book listings, as our intrepid hero has appeared across many, many mediums over the years.  I put it under TV because of perhaps this site's most interesting offering...streaming complete episodes of the cheesy late 70's/early 80's television show staring Gil Gerard and Erin Gray.  Cheesy, yes.  But also strangely cherished by those of us that also remember plunking coins into Defender and then running home to beat our best score in 2600 Asteroids.  And holy crap, Erin Gray in a tight blue jumpsuit...hey, I haven't been in the bathroom that long, Mom!  There's also a lot of great information on the history of the character available here.  Beedeebeedeebeedee....what's shaking, Buck? 

Cartoon Over-Analysations      web.archive.org/web/20020206195734/http://members.aol.com/TheGriffon/cartoon.html
If both Goofy and Pluto are dogs, why does Goofy walk erect and wear clothes and live in a house and drive a car and hold a job and all that, while Pluto is consigned to living in a doghouse in his role as Mickey's mute, slobbering canine lackey? This site covers both film and TV animation as it ponders the really BIG questions. UPDATE: Due to an unfortunate mishap with AOL deleteing his files, as well as his frustrations with trying to keep the site manageable, the author has put this site into hiatus. Above is the last viable archive from the Internet Archive.

NBC.COM: HOMICIDE: Life on the Streets      web.archive.org/web/19970316012658/http://www.nbc.com/homicide
NBC has canned their best TV show after 7 seasons, but the excellent Homicide.com website is still in operation. It lives up to its namesake, fulfilling the promise of TV and Internet convergence. Do yourself a favour and catch the Homicide re-runs on Bravo. And be aware that NBC is committed to bringing back the cast, including members from the early days, for a series of Homicide TV movies. UPDATE: NBC trashed the site, the above is a link to the last working archive on the Internet Archive. Not all the links still work, but enough do to keep it a very interesting corpse to pick over.

Homicide: Life on the Web   www.litesrc.com/lemp/homicide/index.shtml
Also dedicated to one of the greatest TV programs ever created.

G.I. Joe Clips      www.ebaumsworld.com/gijoe.html
A web classic! Remember the PSAs at the end of the G.I. Joe cartoon series during the 80's? Well, a crew with a lot of time on their hands and a twisted sense of humour redubbed them all into madness. My favourite is still PSA13, but they're all surreally hilarious.

Music Videos from the 80's      www.worksafevideos.com/music_videos
Currently over 1,400 videos ready to stream. Some are not the best quality, as the whole collection seems to have been videotaped off TV back when MTV actually played videos, and that was a LONG time ago. It's great to see some of this stuff again... and some of it I wish could have stayed buried.

Nick at Nite & TV Land      www.nickatnite.com
Website for the classic TV show channel, featuring classic show profiles, TV commercials, shockwave games, and more.

PlanetSmeg      www.planetsmeg.com
Plenty of multimedia hi-jinks highlight this smeggin' good page, covering the great British comedy SF series Red Dwarf. Includes many Java games, an online 3D graphical adventure game, episode guide and character bios, latest news on the series and downloadable scripts. More satisfying than a chicken chutney curry vindaloo! UPDATE: I don't see the brilliant 3D adventure on there any more, but the rest of the site is still great.

Rod Serling's Last Interview      www.rodserling.com/brevelleint.htm
Conducted a few months before he died, this transcript of a Serling interview by Linda Brevelle is compelling, eerily precognative and a wonderful glimpse into the attitudes of a man humbled by years in the TV grist mill. It is a fitting epitaph to a great man.

Rod Serling's Night Gallery      www.nightgallery.net
Submitted for your approval: one frighteningly good study of Mr. Serling's second anthology TV series. While it started off as a worthy successor to his fantastic "Twilight Zone", under pressure from NBC and series producer Jack Laird it rapidly degenerated into a lurid pot-boiler mish-mash. This site covers its entire devolution, offering plenty of sound and images. This IS the Night Gallery.

Satellite News      mst3kinfo.com
This online version of the official Mystery Science Theatre 3000 newsletter has plenty of offer, and is just as obsessed with grade Z movie information as its televised brethren. While it pretty much eschews the humour the show is known for, its serious approach to the subject matter makes it all the more frightening...er, I mean informative. It also offers what has to be the most complete history of the show ever created.

Spin - Brian Springer       www.brasscheck.com/videos/spin.html
A streaming version of Spin, a documentary made in the mid 90's by Brian Springer. Featuring captured live video feeds off satellite collected over the course of a year, this is a fascinating and telling exposure of what transpires behind the scenes of TV news.

The Spumco Ren & Stimpy Archive!       victorian.fortunecity.com/russell/105/spumrs.htm
Great site saluting a great cartoon show, produced by animation pariah John Kricfalusi for a glorious four years on Nickelodeon before they muscled him out.  Everything you could ever stomach about the show, its making and unmaking, and the twisted freaks responsible for it.

The Starlost      www.snowcrest.net/fox/star.html
Can I be...of...assistance? This is the greatest Canadian science-fiction television series ever produced. Which isn't saying much.

Star Trek Inspirational Posters      echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html
The latest web craze! Hilarious Star Trek riffs on those much-maligned inspirational posters.

Submitted For Your Perusal - The Rod Serling Sound Collection      www.rod-serling.com
A scary big repository for sound files related to the works of Serling.  Not only "Twilight Zone", but his various television plays and movies, with interviews as well. 

TrekWeb      www.trekweb.com
Everything you ever wanted to know about Star Trek, and were too embarrassed to ask.

TV ACRES      www.tvacres.com/homepage_tv_acres.htm
A website as entertaining as its subject matter, all things releating to the boob tube.

TVparty!      www.tvparty.com
Looking for a site that profiles a wonderfully eclectic collection of classic TV moments, available for viewing through Real Player? You found it!

tzworld.com - Everything that is Twilight Zone    www.tzworld.com
This site, IT'S A COOKBOOK!!  Wait, no it isn't.  It's an unsettlingly large MARTIAN!!  Er, a website I mean, dedicated to bringing you TO A HUMAN ZOO!  No, lots of information on TZ and it's illustrious creator, SOME GUY WITH A TYPEWRITER CONTROLLING ALL OF US!!

The Visitors - The Original V and Visitors Web Site     http://thevisitors.info
Remember "V"?  In my eyes, it was the greatest miniseries ever produced, and was a real watershed SF TV "event" back when the "V" and its sequel "V - The Final Battle" aired in 1982-83 on NBC.  The weekly series that followed it didn't fare as well, however, and was mercifully canned after struggling a year.  Both of the two miniseries' have now seen release on DVD, and they've aged remarkably well.  And here we have a site to do them justice, with lots of information and multimedia flourish.  But, don't forget...THE VISITORS LIE!   

Yesterdayland - Saturday Morning Cartoon Super Site      web.archive.org/web/20010515211103/yesterdayland.com
Another great nostalgia site, giving you info and images on all of the great and cheesy cartoon shows you gobbled Sugar Frosted Sugar Bombs in front of as a kid on Saturday mornings. UPDATE: It pains me to report that Yesterdayland went defunct. Above is the last good archive at the Internet Archive. I'd like to insert a slight editorial in here, and wonder how the heck this site didn't prosper. It was a dynamite site, with terrific web design, and if you check out the list of celebrities they were able to interview (not sure if the video links are still working) about the pop-culture they loved as a kid, you wonder how they didn't have enough pull to keep the site going. The Yesterdayland forums, however, are still active.