Atari Alumni & Video Game News

After the release of the Atari 5200 and the great Video game crash 1983. Atari needed to do something and do something fast. So they came up with probably their best game system to date. Reason being it has its own library of games, and can play every Atari 2600 game. So the library for [...]

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Forget Hot Coffee - the 80’s era sexual video game concepts would make Hillary Clinton’s head explode if they were remastered on an Xbox. At best, these crude depictions of LEGO-like adultery are as sexy as the cave-paintings you see on public bathroom walls. The hyperbole of thundering cockasores and Sir Mixalot dancers were necessary [...]

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The 80’s are back! Yes, Atari has decided to relaunch its classic game console at a $30 price point.
The offer also includes a T-shirt featuring the original Atari VCS 2600 - which is often described as one of the most iconic machines in the history of video gaming.
“Flash back to the 80’s! [These] are the [...]

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Seawolf is based upon a 1976 arcade game by Midway, in which you are a submerged submarine firing torpedoes at ships patrolling the surface. The arcade game was Black and White, primitive, and in my opinion, not very fun. You had a time limit instead of a lives system, not that anything could kill you, [...]

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The Atari 2600, originally called the Atari VCS, is the godfather of modern videogame systems, and helped spawn a multi-billion dollar industry. Atari sold over thirty million of the consoles, and together with other companies sold hundreds of millions of games. Cartridges for the system were produced across three decades, and there are still new [...]

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About 12 years ago, my wife and I pulled her original Atari 2600 out of storage and hooked it up to our television. We set it on the floor, next to my Sega Genesis, and showed it to our kids.
“What’s that?” One of them asked.
“This is how we started playing video games at home when [...]

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Instructions
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Try games online before you buy. If you don’t remember which Atari would make the best choices to buy, you can play them online before you decide to buy them. Go to the Classic Consoles website, click on the game you want to try and follow the directions. You can play online with your [...]

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Calling old-school techies: A new iPhone/iPod Touch app lets you see how the Atari 2600 actually worked. 2600 Magic shows all the major schematics for the classic system as well as detailed instructions on how games were made. Here’s a hint: It was hard.
Check out this synopsis of 2600 Magic and pick it up now [...]

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As 2009 comes to an end its time we l take a look back at the very best classic video games of the year…however since by its very definition, “classic” means it couldn’t have come out this past year, so we’re going to retro rewind 30 years to 1979!
1979 is the year we were introduced [...]

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