In the late '70s and early '80s, Atari was the king of the video game industry, both in terms of arcade and home platform titles. The latter was led by the Atari 2600, an early home console that ...

When the video game crash of 1983 shook the industry to its core, a lot of the warning signs could be traced to the preceding year. An oversaturation of the home gaming platforms flooded the market as ...

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Atari was one of the foremost video game companies in the world during the early 1980s. That was until the video game crash of 1983, from which Atari never truly recovered. Although Atari remained a ...

The 1980s saw five Alien games released, with multiple of them being available on the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, and MSX. The first Alien game was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. The last Aliens ...

Your thumbs remember things your brain forgot, like the exact rhythm needed to execute a perfect hadouken. The National Videogame Museum in Frisco proves that some skills never truly leave you, even ...

Retro hardware is having a moment again, but most of it feels disposable: plastic plug-and-play boxes built for one weekend of nostalgia before they’re shoved into a drawer forever. throwaway ...

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Nostalgia for so-called “retro games” has been kicking around since the late ’90s, so it might seem shocking that the best-selling home video game for much of the 1980s didn’t get an official ...

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