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 ...

Something to look forward to: Atari wants to ensure gamers have at least a few viable reasons to purchase its modern remake of the 2600, so it's releasing "new" games in cartridge format for the ...

Old is new again. This is the Atari 2600+, a newly revamped version of the original 1980 Atari 2600 home console with lots of new bells and whistles to bring it into the modern age. Set to launch in ...

As Pong's popularity started to decline (coupled with the introduction of the Fairchild Channel F, the first system to have programmable "ROM" cartridges), Atari realized that the market for home ...