September 13, 2012
Anyone who plays video games today owes a huge debt of gratitude to Atari and the founders and engineers who worked for the company during its formative years. Atari was responsible for many of the earliest arcade games and some of the earliest games consoles, and throughout the 1970s and 1980s helped shape the industry that now competes with Hollywood in terms of budgets and earnings.
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October 20, 2011
Pong meets fluid dynamics in this stunning variation on the world's first video game. If you like creative takes on gaming classics, or just want a fun two player game to play with friends, this game is worth checking out. Named the best indie games of 2007 by Wired Magazine, Plasma Pong is a twist on Pong, adding a mind-bending liquid surface and stunningly colorful visuals to the time-tested gameplay.
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October 28, 2010
The Atari was, in its day, an amazing piece of hardware as cool and relevant as the Xbox 360 is today. Young people like myself often forget that there was a period of gaming excitement in the late 70s and 80s that was reflected in pop-culture by movies like War Games and Tron. Those days [...]
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January 29, 2010
The Atari 2600 is commonly hailed as the ultimate classic gaming console. Its mere mention warms even the coldest soul. People just seem to love what, today, looks so primitive. But in its heyday, the Atari 2600 provided many a person with hours of 8-bit entertainment. The 2600 had the longest lifespan of any console [...]
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December 7, 2009
So, you’ve been snooping around Atariage and Atarimania, and now, not surprisingly, you’re in love with the Atari 2600. You love the games, the look, everything. Well, maybe you should take your new found devotion a step further and make a homebrew Atari 2600 game. You may be asking what a homebrew game is. Simply put, [...]
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November 20, 2009
It’s the early eighties. You and your friends are sitting around trying to figure out what to do on a boring night. One of your friends gets up from the sofa, walks across the shag carpeted, wood-paneled room and into a closet. The room gasps as he pulls out the wood textured, plastic modern marvel [...]
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November 13, 2009
I know it is NOT 1982 all over again. I know you haven’t even thought of asteroids in all of its time wasting glory. I grew up with titles like this on my Atari 2600. Asteroids, adventure and the very strange game rendition of E.T. I hope I am not alone in reminiscing about these [...]
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