Yesterday in a Twitter thread, the gaming historian Frank Cifaldi said this about the work done by his organization, the Video Game History Foundation: “We all know where the ROMs are hiding online.

Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor of Pong, will talk about the early history of Atari and how Pong launched ...

Extra features in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration are listed on a game-by-game basis. Kohler said, "There is a vast wealth of historical information in Atari 50, which is all integrated into our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pixel Ripped 1978 Trailer Follows Fake Atari Programmer The Pixel Ripped series has taken players back to the 1990s and 1980s, and ...

In the early 1980s, Atari could do no wrong. They created the arcade and home video game market, and had over an 80 percent share of the latter. By the year 2000, they were an afterthought. A cool ...

Highly anticipated: The Atari 2600 was my first exposure to video games in the early 1980s. It drove my infatuation with gaming, a hobby I still love today. More importantly, it ignited my lifelong ...

Atari has today announced the purchase of the Intellivision brand alongside "certain games" from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. This is a melancholy coda to the early days of home consoles in the ...

Over 40 years later, the success of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial keeps it cemented as an iconic classic. The legacy of Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming alien tale continues to see audiences laugh, cry ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Atari is one of the most legendary names in gaming, and its history spans several consoles, arcade games, and even handheld systems. With Amazon's ...