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The French acquisition of Atari, now Atari SA, has given the world promising developments for the retro gaming experience, as after it released a cartridge earlier this year, is now re-releasing a ...
The Atari 2600+ comes with a single joystick controller and a 10-in-one game cartridge, though it should support any of the old software and hardware you have lying around. Image: Atari Atari is again ...
The Atari 2600 is back – as a LEGO set. LEGO announced last week that it will be releasing a recreation of the popular video game console on Aug. 1 for $239.99. The LEGO Atari 2600 set is based on the ...
I can still remember every detail of my years spent playing my mom’s hand-me-down Atari 2600 as a kid. I had the system set up on an old CRT TV in the corner of my bedroom. On weekends, I’d sit down ...
Atari is teaming up with Plaion on a new retro home console after finally taking a mulligan on its last one. The Atari 2600+ pays homage to the original Atari 2600, which delighted children of the ...
I shouldn’t be writing this review. When the Atari 2600 was first released, I was still 15 years away from having a mortal coil to call my own, and playing the resurrected Atari 2600+ — a ...
Atari has taken the wraps off the Atari 2600+, a modern reinvention of its most popular home console. Set to ship in November, the Atari 2600+ plays original Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 cartridges. It ...
It’s now official, and irrefutable: Lego is no longer just for children. This has always been the case, of course, but in recent years the company itself has started to embrace this fact. First there ...
Readers of a certain age no doubt remember the Atari 2600 — released in 1977, the 8-bit system helped establish the ground rules for gaming consoles as we know them today, all while sporting a swanky ...
The unveiling of Atari’s retro handheld console comes not long after the company wowed retro gamers with the reveal of the Ataribox, a milestone release for the company that’s well known for its ...
However, the Atari 2600's library was also its downfall. The film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had a huge amount of hype behind it. It was helped in no small part by director Steven Spielberg being at ...