Atari's Video Computer System wasn’t the first game console, but it was the one that changed the world for an entire generation. An avid audio and vintage computer enthusiast, Jamie has been a writer ...

Atari launched a multi-billion-dollar industry, only to lose control of it in a series of missteps. But the name will always resonate. An avid audio and vintage computer enthusiast, Jamie has been a ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

As a kid, [Boisy] cut his teeth on the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was a wonderful machine for its day, featuring a relatively powerful Motorola 6809 CPU. Although his CoCo was theoretically more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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