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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It's time to dust off your old Atari cartridges as the company again tries to tap into gaming nostalgia with an updated version of its iconic Atari 2600. The upcoming Plus model has the same look as ...

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Console wars have been a mainstay in gaming culture since the existence of the gaming console. Even in the '80s, gamers argued about which one was better, ...