But the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982, left players scratching their heads – as laid out in a video by [Almost Something]. Atari had licensed Pac-Man to ride the wave of its arcade ...

There's no doubt about it, the Atari 2600 / VCS is a pivotal device in the history of gaming. As one of the first machines ...

[David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference. His 38-minute presentation rounds up to a full hour with the Q&A afterwards. It’s a ...

The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...

However, my first impressions of it were possibly as impactful as if I'd seen Grand Theft Auto 6 running on a Steam Deck 2 That's because the Atari 2600+ is a fully working and accurate replica of ...

The mid-1980s were a wasteland for the American video game market, with consumers torn between quarter-guzzling arcade machines and sub-par home consoles, such as the Atari 2600. Enter the NES ...

But it was the advent of home consoles such as the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo NES around the same time that took video games from arcades into living rooms. Games popularised in this period still ...