Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Atari VCS console is up for pre-order and we finally get details on what's inside the box. Up until now Atari has been quite vague with the exact ...

Now that we know how the graphics worked on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Commodore 64, The iBookGuy wants to tell us all about how the Apple II and Atari 2600 got their groove on. In the ...

Like a lot of children of the ’80s, my early gaming nostalgia has a huge hole where the Atari 7800 might have lived. While practically everyone I knew had an NES during my childhood—and a few uncles ...

Atari has released new financial documents which reveal that the lawsuit launched by American Video Graphics against a dozen major publishers has now been settled. The lawsuit, which was filed in ...

This week it appears that one developer fan of Nintendo's hero series Mario has taken his love for the original to a whole new level – backwards. Atari Age forum member Sprybug has taken data from the ...

In Art Of The Game, Nick Wanserski explores how visual design shapes video, tabletop, and role-playing games. Atari 2600 box art is well loved and rightly revered. Some of that can be chalked up to ...

My passion for technology stems from a lifelong love of gaming. I received my first video game console when I was just 3 years old—a 16-bit Sega Genesis handed down to me by my father. And so this ...

The next time you use your shiny new Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS4, think back to a time before time–a time before blends, morphs, heal brushes, and 10-megapixel images. A time like 1984, which ...

We're learning a lot more about Atari's mysterious Ataribox console today. Announced back when summer was in full swing, Atari was very hush-hush with details at first. Today, however, we're learning ...

[The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. It was followed two years later, in 1979, by the ...

Gaming pioneer Atari is getting into the hardware business with its Ataribox, a retro-themed game console with modern guts. The physical design pays homage to the original Atari 2600, a video game ...