From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977.

If you're of a certain age, that is to say "old," then your first video game experience was likely on an Atari 2600 console. The wood-grain accented plastic box, with its mechanical switches and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A British writer who specializes in indie gaming and LEGO. The Atari 2600–the console that shook the world in the late ’70s and ...

If you were a child of the 1970s or '80s, there is a good chance that you played a game on an Atari game system. The first model — known as the Atari 2600 — was one of the first home game consoles to ...

A frequently joyful replica of a classic console that’s a bit too faithful for its own good. And it’s hard to work out who it’s for. This console, then, is more reissue than remake – although in ...

Atari has announced the 2600+, a new retro gaming console that plays Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges. For the uninitiated, the Atari 2600—known initially as the Video Computer System, or VCS for ...

Old is new again. This is the Atari 2600+, a newly revamped version of the original 1980 Atari 2600 home console with lots of new bells and whistles to bring it into the modern age. Set to launch in ...

A staunch Nintendo loyalist, Cameron has been an impassioned gamer since Christmas of 2007, being among the kids who got into the hobby through the Wii. His favorite franchises include Mario, Sonic, ...

Released in 1977, the Atari 2600 was among the second generation of video game consoles and was hugely influenced by the arcade era. Originally called the Video Computer System, it would go on to be ...

The classic beeps and boops of retro video gaming are back. Atari is relaunching its first video game console with a modern twist, now called the Atari 2600+. The original Atari wouldn’t feel the same ...

Before the time when Nintendo dominated the console space in the 80s, and long before the console wars of the 90s took over the world, video games had a different industry leader. Atari was the ...