In 1982, while most game developers were busy with space invaders and maze ghosts, Bill Williams created something far more profound: a game about swimming upstream against impossible odds. Salmon Run ...

About 45 years after the release of the original game, Atari just made a major purchase to secure the rights to an iconic sword and sorcery RPG franchise from the 1980s. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of ...

Atari has announced that they are once again going back into their catalogue of consoles for another re-release, and this time it’s a modernized Intellivision Sprint. After 45 years since its original ...

An Atari 2600 version of Tarzan from the early 1980s, which had once been thought lost forever, was recently rediscovered and made available to play online. A collector known as Rob “AtariSpot” was ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

One of the dominant names in gaming going into the '80s was Atari, which produced titles for both the thriving arcade scene and its own home platforms. Among Atari's major home consoles was the Atari ...

Atari has been a fixture in the gaming landscape for decades, even dominating the early home console market before the video game crash of 1983 derailed things. Despite this, the brand has endured ...

Atari just revealed the Intellivision Spirit, a modern refresh of the classic Intellivision gaming console from 1980. The new console certainly looks like the original. You can practically smell the ...

In 1979, four Atari programmers who had collectively built 60 percent of the company's cartridge revenue walked out of Atari's offices, unable to get their names on game boxes or a cent of royalties.

In 1979, Atari released the Atari 400 and 800, groundbreaking home computers that included custom graphics and sound chips, four joystick ports, and the ability to run the most advanced home video ...