Video games are so much more than a lazy pastime. To some filmmakers, video games are an extension of their human characters, ...

In the 1980s, there was a truly staggering amount of choice for a consumer looking to purchase a home computer. On the high ...

Pong — the first video game with widespread popularity — is turning 50 this year. Find out what Atari’s cofounder thinks of the game five decades later.

In a nutshell: Atari's 8-bit computers first launched in 1979, selling for between $549 and $999 and taking up the space of a full desktop machine. Now, more than four decades later, a Polish ...

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer Hobby project shrinks 1980s computer platform that pierced the Iron Curtain.

Atari’s failure loomed large, with thousands of unsold cartridges buried in a New Mexico landfill. But Nintendo saw an opening. The Japanese company repackaged its Family Computer (Famicom) for ...

Rochester rockers Atari bring ‘80s music back to life Group of twenty-somethings keep playing 50-year-old music. Atari, an '80s variety band, performs at Thesis Beer Project.

The Atari 7800+ provides another simple, yet effective way to play old retro console capers, but it also serves as a wonderfully detailed collector’s piece. If you’ve been searching for a way ...

If there’s a decade that’s filled with nostalgia, especially for Gen Xers, it’s the 1980s. Everything about the years from [… ...

The '80s was a significant time in the tech world and while some gadgets were just plain odd, here are six that shaped how we ...

In Britain today, children by the age of 10 years have regular access to an average of five different screens at home. In addition to the main family television, for example, many very young children ...