Atari’s earlier electronic game Breakout was also an inspiration, ... Galaxian, Moon Cresta, Phoenix and Defender all owe a debt of gratitude to the game that paved the way for all that followed.

The 1985 PC, the first entry of Atari's TOS platform, features an 8 MHz 68000 CPU and up to 512 KB of RAM. By comparison, the original DOS version of Doom, released eight years later, ...

The Atari 2600 was discontinued on the first day of 1992, along with the rest of Atari's 8-bit home catalog. In its lifetime, the 2600 sold over 30 million units. Retro versions of the console ...

The Atari 2600 My Play Watch will track your daily steps and lets you play Centipede, Pong, Missile Command and Super Breakout on your wrist. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

The Atari 2600 My Play Watch is available for pre-order on Atari’s website. You can book one for $79.99 and expect to receive it sometime after June 10. The watch will ship with three swappable ...

Atari is partnering with B3 to bring several titles onto the blockchain for the first time, beginning with the game that started it all: Pong.

Atari Force began as a minicomics series designed to create a shared universe for five iconic Atari games: Defender, Berzerk, ...

Like a lot of children of the '80s, my early gaming nostalgia has a huge hole where the Atari 7800 might have lived. While practically everyone I knew had an NES during my childhood—and a few ...

The $130 Atari 7800+ isn’t a console remix. Unlike the upcoming Analogue 3D, an FPGA-emulation N64 redux, it does not sport any additional launcher where you can get achievements or use to take ...

This isn’t the GameStation Plus Atari and My Arcade pushed at the beginning of 2023. The $130 7800+ looks exactly like the 38-year-old console and plays the actual cartridges. You might struggle ...

Atari 50 already got 12 more retro games in a free update last year.Watch on YouTube. As for the Expanded Edition's second new timeline, that's called The First Console War and it details the long ...

Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision. Atari has announced it has acquired its former competitor from the ’70s and ’80s, ending what it says was the first-ever console war.