I was six years old when the Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released. In the years since, the game has taken on an almost mythical quality in the hearts and minds of many Atari fans, ...

Atari. For gamers of a certain age, those five letters will hit their nostalgia nubbins in a big way. This was a company that blazed a trail in home and arcade gaming, flinging out hits at a rate of ...

"Atari" used to be synonymous with video games — the Atari 2600 console wasn't the first home video game system (that was the Magnavox Odyssey), but it was the one that brought it into most people's ...

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.

The current state of the Atari name and properties leads many people into a tangled web of confusion. It's not surprising, considering the amount of times the company has changed hands, and the ...

Atari has been around the video game industry for quite some time now, and it’s been in the home video game console market for –ulp! – 40 years. That’s quite a bit of time, and it’s come a long way ...

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 ...

Forty years. That's a long time in the tech industry and Atari knows it. Today it celebrates four decades in the game, and quite the tale it is. Highs, lows and everything in between, Atari has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pixel Ripped 1978 Trailer Follows Fake Atari Programmer The Pixel Ripped series has taken players back to the 1990s and 1980s, and ...