Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as ...

The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...

The Atari 2600 is a curious piece of hardware. Orginally designed with early 70ies arcade hits like Pong and Tank in mind, later games radically expanded that space. Doing so required a lot of ...

If you find any source code of Atari 2600 game feel free to open a pull request to grow this project. In the root directory ROMs/ you can find a few games to play. The file ROMs/roms-collections.rar ...

Though video game lovers often flocked to the arcade ... Kong and even a few more friendly faces, here are the 26 most popular Atari 2600 cartridges of all time.

Someone actually took the time to dig through the binary file of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and fix the errors that made it an abomination of a title for the Atari 2600. This is quite a feat in ...

Pac-Man is nothing short of iconic—a game so loved it’s been ported to nearly every console imaginable. But the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982, left players scratching their heads – as ...

and more so than most "mini" games console re-releases of recent times. That's because, while it is 80% smaller than the original, the forthcoming Atari 2600+ is no locked device running pre ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A British writer who specializes in indie gaming. While the Yars Rising announcement trailer stops short of demonstrating full-motion ...

The Keypad was, after all, essential to a handful of Atari 2600 games. Above this are four letter buttons, and a dial, D-pad, and trackball sit to the left of the screen. The L and R buttons sit ...