The original Atari VCS console is being recreated in Lego form, complete with cartridges that can also be turned into scenes from the games. It seems it’s not just Nintendo that Lego has a licensing ...

An old school console that will certainly catch the eye. The Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition is now available to buy.

Now that we know how the graphics worked on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Commodore 64, The iBookGuy wants to tell us all about how the Apple II and Atari 2600 got their groove on. In the ...

Atari is back with a limited edition Pac-Man console that plays 2600 and 7800 cartridges, but is this $170 collectible worth the nostalgia trip?

The Atari 2600 singlehandedly introduced home video games to the masses. A new book by ExtremeTech Editor-in-Chief Jamie Lendino shows how today’s game industry can be traced entirely to this seminal ...

The most notable of the home computer and console hardware from the 8-bit golden era didn’t get their impressive sound and graphics from off-the-shelf silicon, instead they relied on secretive custom ...

TL;DR: In a surprising experiment, Atari 2600's 1979 chess game outperformed ChatGPT despite its 1.19 MHz CPU and limited move evaluation. The AI struggled with basic chess notation and made critical ...

It’s the summer of 2001 and the video game industry is bigger and hotter than ever. In the feverishly contested hand-held market, Nintendo’s GameBoy Advance and Atari’s 2600-compatible VCSp are the ...

If you are a big fan of retro games, the new Atari 2600 game might sweep you off your feet. Some of you might remember retro games from much simpler times in the tech industry. The block-like graphics ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Santa Clara’s Digital Game Museum came across a near-complete version of the cancelled Atari 2600 version of arcade classic Xevious. Behold the ...

Released in 1977, the Atari 2600 was among the second generation of video game consoles and was hugely influenced by the arcade era. Originally called the Video Computer System, it would go on to be ...