This game station is an officially licensed console by Atari and arrives with retro-inspired joysticks, TV connectivity, and more. When you think of the golden age of gaming, you think of Atari. And ...

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 ...

Blow the dust off your old Atari 2600 console. Apparently, there are still new games coming out for it. The Atari 2600 first arrived in homes in 1977 and is nearly 50 years old, ceasing production in ...

The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...

A new development from the Carnegie Mellon Univerisity debuts a new artificial intelligence that beat its previous record in learning to play and beating Atari games that it was asked to solve. This ...

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.

Aside from being a smaller version, the Atari 7800 Plus looks exactly like the original console and will allow players to play games in widescreen mode or a 4:3 aspect ratio for retro gamers who want ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Decades ago, Atari games were some of the first titles to leap from arcades to home consoles. Now, a small selection of Atari's re-imagined classics ...

In the early 1980s, Atari could do no wrong. They created the arcade and home video game market, and had over an 80 percent share of the latter. By the year 2000, they were an afterthought. A cool ...

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration features titles from a number of classic systems, including the Jaguar: a home console from 1994. It was the first console to advertise 64-bit graphics at a time ...

The Atari 2600+ comes out tomorrow for $129.99 (see it on Amazon). Anyone who lived through the early days of console gaming, or who’s interested in seeing what it was like, may want to take a look at ...