Atari Alumni & Video Game News

Ben Heckendorn, master of stuffing old gaming consoles into portable packaging created what is arguably his most intricate project yet, a homemade laptop filled with Atari 800 guts. This throwback to the early days of video games sports an 8-inch TFT screen, dual speakers, full QWERTY keyboard, 2-player controls, cursor control knob, CompactFlash “disk drive,” [...]

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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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To a great extent, the Atari 2600 VCS not only defined what home console gaming was to be like, but also served as the thin edge of the wedge that drove more general-purpose desktop computers into the home. “VCS” stands for “Video Computer System,” and although gaming was clearly the dominant purpose of the device [...]

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Top 5 Least Popular Wars Videogames’ least-visited conflicts. By Scott Sharkey It was hard to find any years ver the course of [...]

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Another great video from Vestron’s “How to Beat Video Games” series, explaining how to beat “Yar’s Revenge” for the Atari 2600: Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon [...]

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Workers prepare the L.A. Convention Center for the Electronic Entertainment Expo this week.
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Full disclosure and necessary reminiscing : I grew up with a second-hand Nintendo (shout out to my pals Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda ). Before that I played on a second-hand Atari ( Pac-Man , Donkey Kong , you rock my world), and before that a really large second-hand computer filled the [...]

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Another great video (with an appearance from “The Narrator”) from Vestron, explaining how to beat “Astroblast” for the Atari 2600: Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon [...]

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Another great video from Vestron, explaining how to beat “Venture” for the Atari 2600:
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Remember in the ‘70s and ‘80s when you mailed in Kool-Aid points and Bazooka Gum wrappers for freebies? Even video games got into the gig with Chase the Chuck Wagon,…
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