[David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference. His 38-minute presentation rounds up to a full hour with the Q&A afterwards. It’s a ...

T he Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...

[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 ...

Run to the right and down the portal. Now you are playing the original Pitfall. Enjoy the wonders of the Atari 2600 (or whatever the number is) (You end up at the door when you run out of lives in ...

the Atari 2600+. The re-release of the original ’70s home gaming console is 80 percent scale, comes with a 1:1 replica of its iconic CX40+ joystick, and still has that signature groovy wooden ...

However, my first impressions of it were possibly as impactful as if I'd seen Grand Theft Auto 6 running on a Steam Deck 2 That's because the Atari 2600+ is a fully working and accurate replica of ...

River Raid was a popular game on the Atari 2600, and with the resurgence of older ... They had sequels to games like Kaboom, River Raid and Pitfall in development for the SNES, but only Pitfall ...

This details the long-running rivalry between the Atari 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision (a brand Atari purchased in May) across six video segments and 20 playable games - including a selection of ...

After releasing several games for the Atari 2600 and other computer-based consoles, famed Pitfall! programmer and designer David Crane abandoned his traditional Activision backing, formed Absolute ...

While the Yars Rising announcement trailer stops short of demonstrating full-motion gameplay, it still looks solid and smooth, and shares telltale signs of Atari’s modern identity. Yars Rising ...

The DLC's new timeline will cover some of the Atari 2600’s innovations, which may have been underappreciated in their time, the search for unreleased prototypes, and also the importance of video ...

What is a pitfall trap? A pitfall trap is a simple device used to catch small animals - particularly insects and other invertebrates - that spend most of their time on the ground. In its most basic ...