Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regardless of whether or not the quarter cup really did runneth over, the Atari founders felt emboldened enough by their test ...

In the corner of a crowded convention hall filled with the latest game-building technology, Louis Castle happened upon an old Apple II with a black-and-white monitor, running a game off a floppy disk.

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The Atari home video game system took the late1970s and early 1980s by storm, complete with faux wood paneling and a classic joystick with a big red button. Rival systems eventually surpassed the ...

The Atari 2600 wasn't the first video game console, or even the first one to accept cartridges. Atari released it in the fall of 1977, and it sold reasonably well in its first holiday season. But ...

Play Days, Atari unveiled its robust retro lineup and future publishing strategy. David Lowey, Senior Director of ...

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Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

The Empire Strikes Back was a pretty common title for the Atari 2600, so why would you pay nearly $1000 for a copy?

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

For $130, you get the console, a gamepad and Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest, a sequel to the 1983 game Crystal Castles. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...

This is way the video game revolution began — not with a bang, but a Pong. Before gamers could swing like Spider-Man, rock a Tanooki suit like Mario or go fast like Sonic, they twirled knobs ...