Atari video games

Greatest Games is a new feature where we highlight our favourite games from the past and try to explain what we think makes them great and worth searching out to play again. Released in 1982 for th…

A nearly endless array of game options helped the cartridge-fed console dominate the living room for years.

In 1982, Atari Inc. released a port of Namco's hit arcade game Pac-Man for its Atari 2600 video game console.

Nice Atari ad from 1981. I remember when my Dad took us to Toys R Us to buy this system. It was the first game system we ever owned. It came with Space Invaders and I remember saving my money to buy Asteroids, which was all the rage back then. The graphics and sound effects were horrible, but I loved it. I still have my system and play it now and then. From my personal collection.

I wasn’t always the guy who wanted to play every video game ever released. I was still pretty much willing

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countless quarters spent on arcade games at the bowling alley...POLE POSITION!

Atari Flashback by Jens Mortensen

The Atari Video Computer System, commonly known as the Atari 2600, is a cartridge-based video game console made by Atari. The Angry Video Game Nerd owns at least one and has reviewed several games for it. It was released on October 14, 1977 as one of the first second-generation consoles in North America. Though the console was branded as the Atari VCS in its early years, it came to be known by its catalog number (CX-2600) sometime between the release of the Atari 400 and 800 home computers…