This article was updated by Christopher Raley on February 3, 2025: The Atari 2600 initiated what is now taken for granted: playing video games. At the time, it wasn't so much a question of what ...

Atari's David Lowey discusses the new Atari 2600+ and the importance of helping the cause of game ... But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, ...

Activision, launched in October 1979, was the first independent, third-party console game developer. ... The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming.Adventure: ...

Like any console, many of the best titles on the Atari 2600 were third party, with Activision being one of the most lauded publishers (like Atari, the entity currently called Activision is not ...

Mr. Run and Jump is the first new Atari 2600 game to be announced in more than three decades and is getting a full conversion onto the company's 46-year-old console. Pre-orders for the cartridge ...