In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom graphics and sound chips, four joystick ports, and the ability to run the most advanced home video ...

My passion for technology stems from a lifelong love of gaming. I received my first video game console when I was just 3 years old—a 16-bit Sega Genesis handed down to me by my father. And so this ...

Even the cheapest, slowest modern game consoles are capable of pushing high-definition 3D graphics that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. But if you’re old enough to remember when video ...

One of the most important pieces of gaming hardware ever made came out into stores on September 11, 1977. The Atari 2600 (or ...

The 2600+ can play both old 2600 and 7800 cartridges and it comes with the original style CX40+ joystick for $130. Reading time 3 minutes Atari is again testing how many times users are willing to pay ...

The Atari brand recently turned 50 and the latest way that its current owner, Atari Interactive, is marking the occasion is with a Lego kit for its most popular console. The Atari 2600 set will be ...

Here's a retro-gaming console perfectly timed for the holiday season – an ideal gift for the classic gamer on your list, or just for yourself. The Atari 2600+ ($129.99, out today, on Atari.com and ...

The Atari 2600 wasn't the first video game console, or even the first one to accept cartridges. Atari released it in the fall of 1977, and it sold reasonably well in its first holiday season. But ...

LEGO’s latest set is an Atari 2600 video game console with a joystick and three classic game cartridges. It’s over 2,500 pieces of ’80s nostalgia. Get ready to be transported back to a wood-paneled ...