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    News Atari 50: Expanded Edition Adds 2 New Timelines And 39 New Games

    Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is already packed to the rafters with incredible retro games, unique interviews, and rare documentation on the history of Atari, but what if you wanted even more..? Well, the good news is that Atari and Digital Eclipse are releasing a new 'Expanded Edition'...
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    News Gauntlet Comes To The Analogue Pocket

    Atari's Gauntlet arcade hardware has been ported to the Analogue Pocket as a new OpenFPGA core. The core has been ported from the MiSTer FPGA by obsidian-dot-dev. It covers Gauntlet, Gauntlet II and Vindicators Part II. Designed by Ed Logg and originally released in 1985, Gauntlet was a...
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    News Alien Abduction! Is A New Atari 2600 Cart From Activision Legends

    Audacity Games — a company formed by Activision co-founder David Crane and designers Garry and Dan Kitchen — announced yesterday that it will be bringing out physical editions of the developer John Van Ryzin's latest game Alien Abduction! for the Atari 2600. Ryzin, as you may already be aware...
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    News Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console

    Atari has just purchased the Intellivision brand, along with "certain games" from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Intellivision Entertainment LLC will rebrand and "continue its business of developing and distributing the Amico game console with a license from Atari to continue to distribute...
  5. Atari 2600+ Review - The Grandaddy Of Gaming Is Back

    Hardware Atari 2600+ Review - The Grandaddy Of Gaming Is Back

    Originally released back in 1977, the Atari VCS (later known as the 2600) was a groundbreaking piece of consumer electronics. Sure, it wasn't the first 'game console' to hit the market, but it was the first to find lasting commercial success; indeed, the name 'Atari' became synonymous with...
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    News MovieCart Lets You Watch Movies With Your Atari 2600

    While it's quite common now for modern video game consoles to come pre-built with the ability to play movies, back in the days of the Atari 2600, the hardware's limitations meant that people never even dreamed about the possibility of being able to watch films on the device. Yet, despite that...
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    News New Short Film Shows How Video Games Can Connect Us Across Generations

    Video games have now been a part of our lives for 50 years, so it stands to reason that they have become powerfully-charged nostalgic touchpoints when it comes to family members who have passed away. A powerful new short film written and directed by Ahseem Yousuf explores the ability of games...
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    News Atari Responds To Reports Of Faulty Games In $1000 50th XP Collection

    An Atari representative has responded to reports that two titles in its $1000 50th-anniversary box set are defective. The posts on Atari Age read as follows:
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    Retro "Most Of My Engineers Were Stoned" - Nolan Bushnell On The Failure Of Atari Video Music

    The chances are that you might never have heard of the Atari Video Music. Released in 1977, not long before the all-conquering Atari VCS, it was a device that somewhat resembled a hi-fi component, with a shiny oblong metal body sandwiched between two wooden panels. The idea was that you would...
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    News Atari Is Reviving Legendary Games Publisher Infogrames

    Atari revealed earlier today that it will be resurrecting the Infogrames brand as a new label to publish games "outside the core portfolio of IP associated with the Atari brand". This news was shared via Twitter, as well as in an announcement on the company's website. Just to give you a small...
  11. Atari 400 Mini Review - A Deep Cut, But A Welcome One

    Hardware Atari 400 Mini Review - A Deep Cut, But A Welcome One

    After a flood of big-name micro-consoles that includes the NES, SNES, Mega Drive, PC Engine and Amiga, we now have what must rank as the deepest cut so far: the Atari 400 Mini. Based on Atari's range of 8-bit home computers, which first hit the market in 1979, this latest collaboration between...
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    News Atari Fans Spent $1000 On 50th XP Collection Only To Find Two Of Its Games Are Broken

    Back in 2023, Atari released a 50th-anniversary box set which cost $1000 and included 10 Atari VCS / 2600 carts: Adventure, Missile Command, Warlords, Super Breakout, Crystal Castles, Haunted House, Yars' Revenge, Centipede, Asteroids and Gravitar. As you can imagine, with a pack with that kind...
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    News How Google's Rampant Sunnyvale Expansion Is Erasing Atari's History

    When you're talking about buildings of historic importance, Atari's original Sunnyvale HQ at 1265 Borregas Avenue has to rank right up there. This is where, between 1976 and 1984, Nolan Bushnell's upstart entertainment company created some of its most famous coin-op hits, as well as the iconic...
 
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