If you're of a certain age, that is to say "old," then your first video game experience was likely on an Atari 2600 console. The wood-grain accented plastic box, with its mechanical switches and ...

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 ...

In a world where videogame experiences are becoming ever more lifelike, it's hard to imagine that people once played games that ran on just 4 kilobytes of RAM. But when the Atari 2600 was released in ...

However, the Atari 2600's library was also its downfall. The film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had a huge amount of hype behind it. It was helped in no small part by director Steven Spielberg being at ...

Following the success of Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition and Sony Playstation Classic retro mini-consoles, Atari is finally hopping on the trend with one of its own: the Atari 2600+. The re-release of ...

When Atari announced it was jumping back into the game-console arena, those old enough to remember the 8-bit glory days of the Atari 2600 -- like myself -- perked up, briefly lighting up whatever part ...