From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977.

Given its popularity, PS1 consoles are easy to find today, whether it is a loose unit or otherwise. According to ...

[Tony] posted an interesting video where he looks at the Atari 2600 and the way many companies tried to convert it into a real home computer. This reminded us of the ColecoVision, which started out as ...

The long-awaited Atari VCS doesn't know if it wants to be a game console, a PC or something in between. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and ...

Atari has officially unveiled the its upcoming console, the Atari VCS, at Game Developers Conference. VCS stands for Video Computer System and the platform was originally known as the Ataribox. It ...

Man-themed retro console has me reliving childhood memories all over again and returned me to a simpler, pixelated past.

Released in 1977, the Atari 2600 was among the second generation of video game consoles and was hugely influenced by the arcade era. Originally called the Video Computer System, it would go on to be ...

LOS ANGELES—At E3 meetings this week, Atari finally showed off playable, near-final prototypes of its long-delayed, then heavily crowdfunded VCS, its modernized homage to the original Atari Video ...

Like today’s Intel-AMD duopoly, the market for home computer CPUs in the 1970s and ’80s was dominated by two players: Zilog with their Z80, and MOS Technology with their 6502 processor. But unlike ...

Representing a huge leap in computers utilizing independent reasoning, reports of a computer which can both learn the rules and methods needed to win a game have surfaced. While this sort of ...