The My Arcade Atari Gamestation Go is loaded with hundreds of games and it includes knob, number pad, and track ball controls ...

The Atari 2600 yielded a number of games in its day that are not only extremely hard to find, but could be worth a ton of ...

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 ...

Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test drive to announce on Nov. 29 that they'd be rolling out Pong cabinets for ...

Yesterday in a Twitter thread, the gaming historian Frank Cifaldi said this about the work done by his organization, the Video Game History Foundation: “We all know where the ROMs are hiding online.

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.

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 ...

Anyone in Massachusetts who grew up going to arcades remembers playing Atari games, as well playing the Atari video game console. The company is celebrating 50 years of business and is re-launching a ...

While technically not the first home video game console, the Atari 2600 was the console that really made the whole thing ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

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