Atari launched a multi-billion-dollar industry, only to lose control of it in a series of missteps. But the name will always resonate. I’ve been a tech journalist and editor with PCMag since 2005 and ...

ExtemeTech EIC Jamie Lendino dives into the history and lore of 8-bit Atari computers in 'Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation.' Read an excerpt here. I’ve been a tech journalist ...

I've got a shelf full of computer history books, many of which I love and have reread several times. But I wanted to write one that focused on the first real computer I grew up with, the one that ...

Atari did a lot of things in the golden age of gaming, but few people would’ve guessed it ran summer camps in the 1980s. In many ways, it’s unimaginable, but through a modern lens, it makes perfect ...

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 ...

[Tony] posted an interesting video where he looks at the Atari 2600 and the way many companies tried to convert it into a real home computer. This reminded us of the ColecoVision, which started out as ...

The long-awaited Atari VCS doesn't know if it wants to be a game console, a PC or something in between. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and ...

Today at Game Developers Conference, Atari took another step in unveiling its upcoming hardware platform, that now has an official name: Atari VCS. VCS stands for Video Computer System, and it was ...

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Between the recent launch of the Atari 2600+ last year and several upcoming remakes for some of the brand's most iconic games, Atari is in a bit of a golden spot currently. The latest evidence for ...