The first video game system in the Aamoth household was the Atari 2600. My parents bought it used from our next door neighbors, wrapped it up, and put it under the Christmas tree. Pitfall! was one of ...

This week we’re taking another departure from the ordinarily campy videos featured in the Retrotechtacular section. This time around the video is only two years old, but the subject matter is from the ...

In brief: Lego is reportedly prepping another bricked game console following the successful launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in the summer of 2020. According to Promo Bricks, the Lego Atari ...

My first childhood memory was playing Pitfall! on the Atari 2600. I loved them at the time. All that said, I definitely feel that Atari games have not held up the way NES and SNES, and even some ...

Some four decades ago, developers of the game Tarzan for the ColeVision console were ready to release a version for the Atari 2600, but it never saw the light of day. Why? Crummy timing, for the most ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Following the success of Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition and Sony Playstation Classic retro mini-consoles, ...

I do believe, that anyone that had a 2600 had Pitfall.<BR><BR>I played it, alot, but what was the point, how did you "win" the game?<BR><BR>The furthest I ever got was when the counter was down to 26 ...

The Atari 2600 — in its familiar, wood-paneled, super-groovy late-1970s incarnation — will get a celebratory Lego-styled build this August in recognition of the console’s 40th/45th anniversaries (see ...

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 ...

Call of Duty: WWII definitely looks like it’ll put players through their paces when it arrives in just a few hours, but that doesn’t mean you’ll always have to be on your guard. In fact, you can ...