If there’s one console that holds a special place in the hearts of console gamers of a certain age, it’s the Atari 2600. A 6502 based system with a cartridge slot and a couple of joysticks, it plugged ...

Both a best-seller and infamous, industry-shaking failure, Pac-Man's Atari 2600 port was recently rereleased for the ...

When the Atari 2600 came out in 1977, it revolutionized gaming by popularizing the use of game cartridges and microprocessor-based hardware. No longer were all of a console’s games built into the ...

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 ...

LEGO announced last week that it will be releasing a recreation of the popular video game console on Aug. 1 for $239.99. The LEGO Atari 2600 set is based on the four-switch revision of the Atari 2600, ...

Retro gaming is a wildly popular hobby, attracting audiences to events like the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. As such, there's been a major resurgence of classic gaming consoles and emulators, and it's ...

Back in the early 1980s, there was a certain fad in making your computer produce something resembling human speech. There were several hardware solutions to this, adding voices to everything from ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have any interest in collecting retro consoles and old-school games, then you're going to love the Atari 2600+ I've really been enjoying Atari's output over the past couple of years. From ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

Here is another geeky t-shirt that would make a great addition to your geeky wardrobe, the Exploded Atari 2600 T-Shirt, and it features an old school Atari console. The Exploded Atari 2600 T-Shirt is ...