Atari’s strict limitations on black backgrounds and its choice to cut costs by sticking with a 4 K cartridge left the game barely recognizable. The famous pellet-chomping maze became simpler ...

In 1982, while most game developers were busy with space invaders and maze ghosts, Bill Williams created something far more ...

The Atari 2600 My Play Watch will track your daily steps and lets you play Centipede, Pong, Missile Command and Super Breakout on your wrist.

Their famous 2600 console sold almost as many ... In many ways, despite making mistakes that led to the video game crash of the early 80s, Atari was the first to make a path in the video game ...

The game was published by Atari at a time when many gaming studios didn't credit game developers within their products. Image caption, Adventure was released in 1980 for the Atari Video Computer ...

My family, like many others in the late 70s / early 80s, acquired an Atari VCS (as it was called at the time) and a handful of games. And, it cannot be underestimated just how important they were ...