software-games
MobyGames
A comprehensive catalogue of video game history, covering games across all platforms. Searching is done on the website; an API exists but requires a key. It is the standard reference when you need the catalogued record of a particular game. Currently degraded, the site may interpose a CAPTCHA.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
MobyGames is the standard reference database for video game history, with catalogued entries covering games across more than 300 platforms from the earliest home computers to modern consoles. Each entry includes release dates, publishers, developers, screenshots, cover scans, critic scores, and platform-specific notes contributed by a community of editors over more than two decades. It is the place to reach for when you need definitive publication metadata, a platform-by-platform release list, or historical context for a specific title. Echo links you to MobyGames so you can search and browse there directly.
What’s inside
More than 327,000 documented games across over 300 platforms, with release records spanning from 1948 to the present day.
API access
https://api.mobygames.com/v1/games (key)
An API key is required (usually free); see the endpoints above for where to get one.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 199 ms (just a moment)
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 529 ms (just a moment)
- API, direct
- Blocked HTTP 401 921 ms
- API, through a proxy
- Blocked HTTP 401 993 ms
Benchmark coverage
Found 0 of 3 test items (0%) in the Software / packages cluster. Median response 204 ms.
By how well known the item is: 0/1 well-known, 0/2 mid .
Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.
Access
May require solving a captcha before it responds.