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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 …read more Continue reading Atari Introduces a New Old Console
Atari announced this week that it will acquire the Atari Age online community as part of its recent retro push.
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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 the 80s classic, and will ship with a 10-in-1 cartrid… Continue reading Atari games like it’s 1980 with “faithful recreation” of Atari 2600 console
The hits just keep on coming: Atari today announced the Atari 2600+, a retro video game console that will play original 2600 and 7800 cartridges.
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Any discussion about personal technology nostalgia has to begin with the Atari VCS, which is more commonly known as the Atari 2066. The VCS wasn’t the first home video game machine, and it wasn’t even the first to support multiple games via external ca… Continue reading Tech Nostalgia: VCS (Premium)
The first computer to ever beat a reigning chess world champion didn’t do so until 1996 when a supercomputer built by IBM beat Garry Kasparov. But anyone who wasn’t a …read more Continue reading A Chess AI In Only 4K of Memory
Atari announced today that it has acquired over 100 classic Accolade, Infogrames, and Microprose games from the 1980s and 1990s along with the trademarks of the Accolade and GTI brands.
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The MouSTer is a device that enables modern USB HID mice to be used on various retro computers. The project has been through its ups and downs over years, but …read more Continue reading The MouSTer Adapter Now Has Amiga Scroll Support
If you ever spent some time playing on the Atari 2600, there’s an excellent chance you went through a few rounds of Combat. The two-player warfare game not only came …read more Continue reading Combat Gets a Computer Controlled Opponent
It’s been a year of anniversaries, what with the 40th birthday of both the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. But there’s another anniversary that in a sense tops …read more Continue reading Atari At 50: The Story Of Our Lives