The company that currently owns the Atari name and trademarks has decided to give owners of the old Atari Video Computer System (aka the Atari 2600) something new to do. Mr. Run and Jump is a new ...
I shouldn’t be writing this review. When the Atari 2600 was first released, I was still 15 years away from having a mortal coil to call my own, and playing the resurrected Atari 2600+ — a ...
Hand a modern controller to someone who hasn’t gamed since the days of the original Atari console and they’ll be immediately overwhelmed by its complexity. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, controllers ...
The French acquisition of Atari, now Atari SA, has given the world promising developments for the retro gaming experience, as after it released a cartridge earlier this year, is now re-releasing a ...
While the world watched Steve Jobs unveil the new AppleTV Wednesday, the geeks at iFixit were busy taking the lid off something very different, the Atari 2600. iFixit’s tear down of the 33-year old ...
It’s already looking like a bold, bright new year for homebrew gadgetry, as Australian modder “cTrix” shows off the improbable-looking gATARI2600. As seen on Joystiq, the Atari 2600 console combines ...
The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed ...
The Atari 2600+ comes with a single joystick controller and a 10-in-one game cartridge, though it should support any of the old software and hardware you have lying around. Image: Atari Atari is again ...
OpenAI's ChatGPT lost a chess game against an old Atari 2600 game console released in 1977. This console has only 128 bytes of RAM. An experiment conducted by American infrastructure architect Robert ...
Despite all its advances, ChatGPT is seemingly still less smart — at certain tasks, at least — than an Atari game console from almost 50 years ago. In a post on LinkedIn, Citrix software engineer ...
This bulky, serious looking piece of electronic equipment did one thing and one thing only: The Atari Video Music system was the first consumer waveform visualizer. You could plug RCA outputs from ...
What it’s about: Only the most high-tech fun 1977 had to offer! While ’70s video game nostalgia centers around Atari’s Pong and 2600 systems, and—in the early ’80s—competitors Intellivision and ...