The company that currently owns the Atari name and trademarks has decided to give owners of the old Atari Video Computer System (aka the Atari 2600) something new to do. Mr. Run and Jump is a new ...

Atari has announced the 2600+, a new retro gaming console that plays Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges. For the uninitiated, the Atari 2600—known initially as the Video Computer System, or VCS for ...

Gamers who are old enough to remember playing on an Atari 2600 will recall spending endless days and nights grinding games like Asteroids, Centipede, and Defender. With the introduction of the Atari ...

The French acquisition of Atari, now Atari SA, has given the world promising developments for the retro gaming experience, as after it released a cartridge earlier this year, is now re-releasing a ...

Mr. Run and Jump may be coming out on consoles and PC later this year, but the action platformer will also come packaged in an Atari 2600 cartridge, marking it the first new 2600 cartridge game in ...

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 ...

Nostalgic tech enthusiasts who miss collecting Atari 2600 game cartridges will get a shot to add one more title to their collection on July 31, when they’ll be able to preorder a “Mr. Run and Jump” ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Your Atari 2600 probably hasn't gotten much use in recent... decades, but that could change very soon. Via its Atari XP initiative, Atari is releasing ...

One of the best products to be unveiled at Gamescom 2023 isn't actually a game at all – it's a reimagined console. However, my first impressions of it were possibly as impactful as if I'd seen Grand ...

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Atari is teaming up with Plaion on a new retro home console after finally taking a mulligan on its last one. The Atari 2600+ pays homage to the original Atari 2600, which delighted children of the ...

The Atari VCS is a retro-inspired game console that’s also basically a cheap, low-power Linux computer designed to look like an Atari console from the 1980s. It was also something of a flop – early ...