Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atari 5200. Atari’s 8-bit console had a short-lived shelf life, meaning its collection of games is quite slim. Fortunately for ...

Before the time when Nintendo dominated the console space in the 80s, and long before the console wars of the 90s took over the world, video games had a different industry leader. Atari was the ...

A decade ago, DeepMind achieved a major AI breakthrough, enabling systems to learn retro video games like Space Invaders ...

Blow the dust off your old Atari 2600 console. Apparently, there are still new games coming out for it. The Atari 2600 first arrived in homes in 1977 and is nearly 50 years old, ceasing production in ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Decades ago, Atari games were some of the first titles to leap from ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Even though I was a child of the ’90s who grew up with a Sega Genesis, my favorite console was my mother’s hand-me-down Atari 2600. It was the one console I kept hooked up to the TV in my bedroom, ...

Revisiting your favorite games from years gone by isn’t always easy. If you haven’t held onto older consoles, getting ahold of them these days can be pricey. And even then, you have to track down ...

Wade Rosen wants Atari to come back as one of the most valuable gaming brands. After all, there aren’t many 50-year-old game companies. Last year, the company started marking its anniversary with a ...

It’s not often that I get to write about a console that’s as old as I am, but here we are. Atari has just announced a renewed version of its 7800 home console from 1986. Dubbed the 7800 Plus, the new ...