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 ...

PLAION and Atari announce the Atari 2600+ – a modern day faithful recreation of the pioneering console that first appeared in 1980 – will be launching worldwide on 17th November 2023 and available to ...

Man-themed retro console has me reliving childhood memories all over again and returned me to a simpler, pixelated past.

The Atari 2600 wasn't the first video game console, or even the first one to accept cartridges. Atari released it in the fall of 1977, and it sold reasonably well in its first holiday season. But ...

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Some four decades ago, developers of the game Tarzan for the ColeVision console were ready to release a version for the Atari 2600, but it never saw the light of day. Why? Crummy timing, for the most ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Yume Nikki: Atari 2600 Yume Nikki Atari 2600, is an adaptation of Kikiyama’s original Yume Nikki replicating style of the Atari console “Atari 2600” a ...

In brief: Few things show a person's age quite like an admission that the Atari 2600 was their first gaming machine. For those of us who remember playing Pitfall on those rubbery, single-button ...