Long before realistic graphics, online multiplayer games with expansive worlds, and downloadable content, there was Atari. For an entire generation, Atari was more than a video game console. It was a ...

Video gaming exploded in the 1980s with the advent of the at-home console. Nintendo, Atari, Magnavox, and others set the ...

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor ...

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These five games were integral parts of some major home console launches during the 1980s, but they are barely remembered now.

Gaming consoles have a sort of expiry date, however, nobody says you can't mess around with their software to repurpose them.