That's because, while it is 80% smaller than the original, the forthcoming Atari 2600+ is no locked device running pre-installed, emulated games. It plays the exact same cartridges I coveted as a kid.

The brand was very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, producing games like Pong and consoles like the Atari 2600. The video game crash of 1983 tanked the company, selling the computer and game ...

Someone actually took the time to dig through the binary file of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and fix the errors that made it an abomination of a title for the Atari 2600. This is quite a feat in ...

[Ben Heck] posted this writeup about getting S-Video/composite out of an Atari 2600. This is actually the hack of [Longhorn Engineer], who showed it to [Ben] at a recent event. If any of you have ...

It's been a retro kind of week for us here at Paste, playing new games based on old games or made up of old games.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A British writer who specializes in indie gaming. While the Yars Rising announcement trailer stops short of demonstrating full-motion ...

Atari 50 is rightly considered to be the best retro gaming collection ever made. While there are a few other collections with superior games lists (the SEGA Mega Drive Collection springs to mind ...

With just a day to go until the launch of Atari 50's paid The Wider World of Atari DLC, developer Digital Eclipse has revealed all 19 titles it'll be adding to its acclaimed interactive museum.

The not-for-profits had been campaigning to give researchers of vintage video games the same rights as researchers in other ...

The set has you piece together a 1:1 recreation of the Atari 2600 console itself, plus a joystick, three classic game cartridges (Asteroids, Adventure, and Centipede), and a “wooden” storage ...

With the holiday season approaching, the nights closing in and getting a little chillier all around what better way than… ...

Owners of the original game on the Atari VCS will receive the DLC content for free as part of an update ... which will include Atari 2600 art cards, miniature arcade marquee signs, an Al Alcorn ...