The news that Atari will release a brand-new system - the Ataribox - was exciting enough. By the time we learned the system promised to play both retro and current games, we were practically ...

Atari has always been a name synonymous with gaming innovation, and while it wasn’t the first, it was certainly the system that changed gaming forever. Its foray into handheld gaming is no different.

Nintendo's Switch 2 -- or whatever the Switch successor's name ends up being -- might be the handheld game system on everyone's mind at the start of 2025, but Atari has rather unorthodox designs on ...

Amazon is offering a major “flashback” deal that will conjure up some fond childhood memories of your days at the arcade. The Atari Game Station Pro is now on sale for $69, instead of $100, for a ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. Atari, once a ...

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

Atari plans to use the studio’s technology and publishing expertise to ‘enhance and improve’ games from its substantial back catalog. Atari plans to use the studio’s technology and publishing ...

Benjamin Heckerdorn has been making consoles portable for a while, but who knew that he has been getting his paws dirty with console parts for seven years now. In honor of the sevenyeariversary of ...

The game console previously known as Project Ataribox and later rebranded as the Atari Video Computer Systems (or Atari VCS for short) is finally available at retail, four years after it was first ...

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TL;DR: The Atari 2600 kit is based on the four-switch revision of the console that launched in 1980 and includes three game cartridges - Asteroids, Adventure and Centipede - as well as a joystick that ...