While not as ubiquitous as the Atari 2600, the Atari 7800 is still a retro console beloved by hardcore retro enthusiasts. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...

More than 200 games come preloaded, spanning systems like the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Atari 7800, along with a selection ...

In the corner of a crowded convention hall filled with the latest game-building technology, Louis Castle happened upon an old Apple II with a black-and-white monitor, running a game off a floppy disk.

The electronics powering the Atari 2600 were even simpler than those found in the original Game Boy. So why are recreations like the Atari Flashback 2.0 so big? There’s no reason they have to be, as ...

The French acquisition of Atari, now Atari SA, has given the world promising developments for the retro gaming experience, as after it released a cartridge earlier this year, is now re-releasing a ...

An Atari 2600 version of Tarzan from the early 1980s, which had once been thought lost forever, was recently rediscovered and made available to play online. A collector known as Rob “AtariSpot” was ...

The Atari 2600+ is a recreation of the original Atari 2600 console and can play hundreds of original Atari 2600 and 7800 games. It will come with a 10-game cartridge and will launch on Nov. 17. On ...

Atari’s new smartwatch lets you play classic games like Centipede, Pong, and Super Breakout on your wrist. The watch features a 2.0-inch touchscreen display and supports basic health and fitness ...

While technically not the first home video game console, the Atari 2600 was the console that really made the whole thing commercially viable. It wasn’t like the Pong consoles of years past that only ...

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This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...