Atari Alumni & Video Game News

We are talking suburban high tech here! Compumate came with a membrane keyboard and was equipped with a phone jack for use with a standard tape connector. Was it great? No, but I still wanted one so that I could use the their sweet sweet DRAW program. It allowed for very [...]
Click Here For More…
Also [...]

[Read more →]

Silent Hill: Homecoming May Be Toned Down for Australia by Blake Ellison Sep 30, 2008 4:26pm CST tags: Silent Hill: Homecoming Double Helix’s Silent Hill: Homecoming (PC, 360, PS3), which was refused classification in Australia last week, may get a less violent release in early 2009. Atari, [...]

[Read more →]

Nintendo and the Windows Mindset Posted by Paul Murphy @ 2:58 pm Categories: General, Applications, Development, IT Retardants, Productivity Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy I’ve been playing the Tiger Woods PGA golf game on Nintendo/Wii lately and [...]

[Read more →]

Filed under: Culture, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure, Business Late last week we learned that Silent Hill: Homecoming was essentially banned in Australia after being refused classification by the OFLC. IGN has some more details on the OFLC’s issues with the title and has spoken with regional distributor Atari, which hopes [...]

[Read more →]

ISLAMABAD: The decision to open the Wagah-Atari border and the Munabao-Khokrapar rail link to trade is a “dream come true” but the two sides will have to work fast to implement it and put up the additional …
Click Here For More…

[Read more →]

Para todos aquellos fanaticos de las zapatillas y los videojuegos de los 80s ( como nosotros !!! ) esta nueva colaboracion de la firma con base en Beaverton es lo maximo… ya que toma al… no muy conocido… modelo Air Force II y le agrega el look & feel de la mitica Atari 2600…aquella [...]

[Read more →]

I’m reading Steven L. Kent’s engrossing 2001 book The Ultimate History of Video Games, and of course it reminds me of a lot of games I played as a kid. My first real video games were played on the Atari VCS/2600. (The book is in my home because my 10-y-o son is both a video [...]

[Read more →]

Los últimos en cerrar sus servidores de DRM habían sido Yahoo y MSN, y ahora le toca el turno a Wal*Mart, la cadena estadounidense de centros comerciales que el viernes pasado envió un correo a sus clientes para anunciarles el cierre de su sistema de derechos digitales y darles una serie de instrucciones para poder [...]

[Read more →]

L’Atari 2600 est lancée en octobre 1977, il y’a 31 ans. Avec plus de 25 millions d’unités vendues, l’Atari 2600 est la console la plus populaire de sa génération. Le succès est historique, marquant l’avènement d’un marché de masse pour le jeu vidéo. La console rapporte beaucoup d’argent à la société Atari jusqu’en 1983 [...]

[Read more →]

Diese Sofas würden ja perfekt zu diesem Wohnzimmertisch-Controller (der noch dazu tatsächlich funktioniert) fürs NES passen. Ich stelle mir grade vor, wie ich in einem solchen Wohnzimmer auf meinem immer noch funktionierendem Atari 2600 Pac-Man spiele. Retrogaming war noch nie so stylish, wie hier. Base Bianca, Seduta Bordeaux (via BBGadgets) © [...]

[Read more →]