"Atari" used to be synonymous with video games — the Atari 2600 console wasn't the first home video game system (that was the Magnavox Odyssey), but it was the one that brought it into most people's ...

I was six years old when the Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released. In the years since, the game has taken on an almost mythical quality in the hearts and minds of many Atari fans, ...

Yesterday in a Twitter thread, the gaming historian Frank Cifaldi said this about the work done by his organization, the Video Game History Foundation: “We all know where the ROMs are hiding online.

As Pong's popularity started to decline (coupled with the introduction of the Fairchild Channel F, the first system to have programmable "ROM" cartridges), Atari realized that the market for home ...

Atari has been around the video game industry for quite some time now, and it’s been in the home video game console market for –ulp! – 40 years. That’s quite a bit of time, and it’s come a long way ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A British writer who specializes in indie gaming and LEGO. The Atari 2600–the console that shook the world in the late ’70s and ...

Video game historian Kevin Bunch remembers sending a dozen letters over the mail in 2019, each one addressed to the same name. The white envelopes journeyed across different addresses in Texas, some ...

From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977.

The Atari 2600+ comes out tomorrow for $129.99 (see it on Amazon). Anyone who lived through the early days of console gaming, or who’s interested in seeing what it was like, may want to take a look at ...

A staunch Nintendo loyalist, Cameron has been an impassioned gamer since Christmas of 2007, being among the kids who got into the hobby through the Wii. His favorite franchises include Mario, Sonic, ...