[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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari® — one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today proudly announces a partnership with revolutionary ...

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 Atari VCS didn't make its original launch date of March 2020, but thankfully, the console has a new release window. The Indiegogo-funded system will ship out to backers this fall, which is also ...

Ben Heck has completed his latest project, and I think this one is one of the coolest ones we have seen from Ben to date, the Atari 800 Laptop. Earlier this year I finished the long-gestating ...

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 ...

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 ...