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

A classic moment from Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 – players swing over crocodile-infested pits in one of the earliest and most iconic platformers in gaming history. Activision eventually became ...

My first childhood memory was playing Pitfall! on the Atari 2600. I loved them at the time. All that said, I definitely feel that Atari games have not held up the way NES and SNES, and even some ...

Atari is teaming up with Plaion on a new retro ... Frogger, Space Invaders and Pitfall! The throwback console has been “lovingly recreated to the same specifications as the original,” although ...

Pitfall!’s legacy and many sequels is a sure sign of its impact for the Atari 2600. River Raid was an exciting concept from the get-go, with players launching into an aircraft and shooting their ...

I can still remember every detail of my years spent playing my mom’s hand-me-down Atari 2600 as a kid ... spending months on end picking away at Pitfall. I’d barely even get past its fifth ...

the Atari 2600+. The re-release of the original ’70s home gaming console is 80 percent scale, comes with a 1:1 replica of its iconic CX40+ joystick, and still has that signature groovy wooden ...

The first model — known as the Atari 2600 — was one of the first home game consoles to grace living rooms with titles like "Pac-Man," "Pitfall," and "Yar's Revenge." Each game came on a ...

One thing long-time gamers love is nostalgia, and Atari, with help from Plaion, is banking on it with the release of the Atari 2600+ retro home console. With Plaion handling publishing duties ...

The Atari 2600+ is billed as a faithful recreation ... that defined the system’s success in the early 1980s such as Pitfall, Space Invaders, Asteroids, River Raid, Demon Attack, Joust, and ...