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" 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 ...

'Atari Inc.: Business is Fun' includes rare photos, interviews with ex-Atari employees, and new details on Steve Jobs's stint at the pioneering video game company. The 800-page book relates the Atari ...

Atari isn’t dead, though. In fact, it never went away. It’s existed in some form since it was founded in 1972, but we’re starting to hear about it a lot more often ever since Wade Rosen took over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Extra features in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration are listed on a game-by-game basis. Kohler said, "There is a vast wealth of historical information in Atari 50, which is all integrated into our ...

Atari has today announced the purchase of the Intellivision brand alongside "certain games" from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. This is a melancholy coda to the early days of home consoles in the ...