(This all happens in the background, because the Atari operating system already has some emulators built in—enabling the VCS 800 to play titles from various gaming systems—and others can be ...

The Atari home video game system took the late1970s and early 1980s by storm, complete with faux wood paneling and a classic joystick with a big red button. Rival systems eventually surpassed the ...

Atari is relaunching its most well-known console as the Atari 2600 Plus, an 80 percent scale, HDMI-outputting version of the Atari 2600 on November 17th for $129.99, with support for 2600 and 7800 ...

The Atari 2600 Plus takes you back to 1977. The nostalgia factor is sky-high and everything feels right down to the last detail. But we'd like to see more games and the price tag is a bit high.

At a glance, the 2600+ looks exactly like an Atari 2600 unit you might remember from decades past (albeit a four-switch "CX2600-A" model introduced in 1980, not one of the larger "Sixer" models ...

It is 2021, and I'm not playing on an Xbox or PlayStation. I'm playing Atari. The company has returned with a new console: Atari VCS.

Atari has announced the 2600+, a new retro gaming console that plays Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges. For the uninitiated, the Atari 2600—known initially as the Video Computer System, or VCS for ...