Readers of a certain age no doubt remember the Atari 2600 — released in 1977, the 8-bit system helped establish the ground rules for gaming consoles as we know them today, all while sporting a swanky ...

Blow the dust off your old Atari 2600 console. Apparently, there are still new games coming out for it. The Atari 2600 first arrived in homes in 1977 and is nearly 50 years old, ceasing production in ...

Atari, which has heavily mined its early consoles for nostalgia dollars with re-creations like the Atari 2600+ and the Atari 400 Mini, has now also exhumed the corpse of one of its earliest ...

I can still remember every detail of my years spent playing my mom’s hand-me-down Atari 2600 as a kid. I had the system set up on an old CRT TV in the corner of my bedroom. On weekends, I’d sit down ...

Aside from being a smaller version, the Atari 7800 Plus looks exactly like the original console and will allow players to play games in widescreen mode or a 4:3 aspect ratio for retro gamers who want ...

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.

Atari’s follow up to its 2600+ retro console for modern TVs is the Atari 7800+. Just like the console from 1986, it’s backwards compatible with the 2600. Reading time 2 minutes There must be at least ...

This week, millions of gamers are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the OG. Atari is celebrating is 50th anniversary this week. The iconic video game maker was incorporated way back in June of 1972, ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer at Dualshockers. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not talking your ear off about a ...

The 2600+ can play both old 2600 and 7800 cartridges and it comes with the original style CX40+ joystick for $130. Reading time 3 minutes Atari is again testing how many times users are willing to pay ...

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On Christmas Day 1982, I unwrapped my very first video game console, an Atari 2600. Although it was released in 1977, it was new to me, and I'm pretty sure the reason my parents got it for me was ...