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 ...

Hyper Mega Tech’s Atari and Technos Super Pockets will annoy traditionalists, just like plug-and-play retro consoles, but ...

[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 ...

In "Breakout" the ball you have to intercept gets ... or an interesting story. Atari 2600 games have little of that. What they have, though, is a good dose of good feelings and warm memories.

[Tony] posted an interesting video where he looks at the Atari 2600 and the way many companies tried to convert it into a real home computer. This reminded us of the ColecoVision, which started ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kit Kat's maker Nestle has been accused of copying Breakout, the 1970s computer game, in a marketing campaign. Atari, the company behind some of the most popular early video games, has filed a ...

If you love retro gaming as much as I do, Atari’s latest app for the iPhone and iPad (which will launch in the US App Store later today) might as well be a dream come true: with Atari’s Greatest Hits, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...