Atari’s 8-bit computer line began as a next-generation follow-up to the groundbreaking Atari 2600 video game console. Upon seeing Apple’s success in the early personal computer market, Atari ...

Popular home personal computer company was established by Utahn Nolan Bushnell on this date in 1972. Video games soon ...

Overall, the biggest advantage that the Atari 800 had over its competitors was its powerful custom chipset, though that wasn’t enough to guarantee Atari a prime spot in the personal computer market.

Forty years ago, Atari released its first personal computers: the Atari 400 and 800. They arrived in the fall of 1979 after a prerelease marketing campaign that had begun the previous January when ...

Atari Computer has had more ups and downs than your thermometer, but lately it`s on a hot streak. At the Computer Dealers Expo (COMDEX) held here in Chicago last month, Atari created quite a stir ...

Atari also launched a mobile gaming system, the handheld Atari Lynx with color graphics, but it lost out to Nintendo’s less expensive Game Boy with its black-and-white display. Though an Atari 2600 or ...

The Atari 520ST was Atari's first 16-bit salvo in the personal computer wars of the 1980s. A new book by Jamie Lendino shows the tremendous influence the ST had on both gaming and music production.

In 1983, personal computers were hitting the mainstream. Students, business professionals, and gamers alike were investing in what was becoming a basic tool of modern life. #retro #technology # ...

The Atari 8-bit platform holds particular significance in Poland and Europe in general, where these computers performed well on the home market throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Retro Games has released its latest gaming console with the Atari 400 Mini, a palm-sized throwback that celebrates Atari’s 8-bit personal computer era.