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 specifications that power its new Atari VCS system ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of Atari 8-bit computers. While ...

[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 ...

The Art Of Atari: From Pixels To Paintbrush is an in-development coffee-table book that celebrates what some see as the golden age of video game packaging design. Creator Tim Lapetino is seeking to ...

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 ...

Let's be honest, though: The graphics in Atari 2600 games stink by today's standards. Most of the games show your character (a blocky shape) throwing something (a line shape) or wielding a weapon (an ...