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 ...

Missile Command and Adventure are the latest additions to the line and debatably the biggest ones yet. Both are iconic Atari 2600 titles that had a fundamental influence on the video game industry.

No game publisher has lived as many lives as Atari. A pioneer in home console gaming, the company was there at the inception of the video game industry, the video game crash of 1983, and, like a ...

The Atari 2600 is back – as a LEGO set. LEGO announced last week that it will be releasing a re-creation of the popular video game console on Aug. 1 for $239.99. The LEGO Atari 2600 set is based on ...

Atari recently announced Adventures of Samsara, a new Metroidvania that’s a spiritual successor to 1980’s Atari 2600 hit Adventure. Developed by Ilex Games, Adventure of Samsara presents a world ...

The Lego Atari 2600 launched today, August 1, exclusively at the Lego Store for $240. If you enjoyed building the Lego NES, you're going to have a great time with the Atari 2600. This mammoth set ...

Lego and Atari are celebrating the gaming company’s 50th anniversary with a new set based on the iconic Atari 2600 (aka Atari VCS) console that launched in 1977. But the Lego Atari 2600 is more than ...

Lego didn’t need to go this hard when it made this 2,532-piece Atari 2600 set in honor of the game company’s 50th anniversary, but we’re very happy that it did. And right now, this Lego Atari 2600 ...

It’s been rumored since April, but today Lego has confirmed the Lego Atari 2600, and it is beautiful. They also revealed it in the sweetest way. The tweeted video begins showing some footage from 1982 ...

The Atari 2600+ comes with a single joystick controller and a 10-in-one game cartridge, though it should support any of the old software and hardware you have lying around. Image: Atari Atari is again ...

Every week at least a couple of metroidvanias release on Steam, and most remain obscure. Adventure of Samsara, which released on September 4, was more fated to obscurity than most, despite being ...

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