The roots of video game box art can be traced all the way back to Atari in the '80s. The early industry player's Atari 2600 console brought video games into the living room, with artwork that ...

After reading a book about programming for the 1970s Atari 2600 video-game console ... t the first time the museum has featured games as art: Halo 2600 was one of several selected for display ...

In late 2023, Atari announced the answer: the Atari 2600+. Though not ... independent studios showed off games that featured AI-created and AI-assisted game artwork. Kipwak Studios spent just ...

[David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference. His 38-minute presentation rounds up to a full hour with the Q&A afterwards. It’s a ...

“Starting May 5th, we will be increasing the price of all game cartridges by 10 percent. The pricing applies to both 2600 and 7800 cartridges.” Atari’s ‘80s-inpsired gaming lineup includes ...

Although back in the Atari 2600 days this led to the extreme cubism which we’re seeing again in modern ‘retro pixel art’ games, yesterday’s artists worked with the hardware limitations to ...

This time it’s the Atari 2600 My Play watch that’s both a fitness tracker and a portable game system. Up for pre-order now for $80, the watch ships with four classic Atari games pre-installed.

When Atari announced it was jumping back into the game-console arena, those old enough to remember the 8-bit glory days of the Atari 2600 -- like myself -- perked up, briefly lighting up whatever ...

The 1970s was one of tech's golden eras, marking the dawn of personal computing and video games. From gadgets like the first digital watch to the classic Atari 2600 game system, there was no ...