On holidays like Thanksgiving, part of the togetherness (especially with my older brother) has always included video games—especially games for our first computer, the Atari 800. Released in 1979, ...
[The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. It was followed two years later, in 1979, by the ...
I've got a shelf full of computer history books, many of which I love and have reread several times. But I wanted to write one that focused on the first real computer I grew up with, the one that ...
This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of Atari 8-bit computers. While ...
Gamasutra has published the second installment of Steve Fulton's history of Atari, the pioneering games company. In 20 pages he covers the golden years from 1977 to 1981, where the highlights include ...
Some Computerworld bloggers have been telling tales of their first computers. I figured I’d throw mine into the pool here… The year was 1984, I was 11 years old and baseball cards were rapidly fading ...
Continuing my dust-covered crusade against modern unboxings, here’s another vintage unboxing, in which an Atari 800XL from 1983 is transferred lovingly from the packaging to the outside world. The ...
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