NEW YORK, May 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari®, one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, announced today that its new Atari VCS™ hardware platform is ...

Atari has issued a somewhat belated update on the status of its Ataribox console project, including a rebrand from Ataribox to Atari VCS - sharing a name with the company's first attempt at a home ...

[The 8-Bit Guy] tells us how 8-bit Atari computers work. The first Atari came out in 1977, it was originally called the Atari Video Computer System. It was followed two years later, in 1979, by the ...

Gamasutra has published the second installment of Steve Fulton's history of Atari, the pioneering games company. In 20 pages he covers the golden years from 1977 to 1981, where the highlights include ...

Atari is making a new video game console, 40 years after the launch of the Video Computer System. CEO Fred Chesnais told GamesBeat: "We're back in the hardware business." Although there aren't many ...

On Sept. 11, 1977, Atari unveiled the Video Computer System (VCS). It wasn’t the first game console, or even the first console to accept cartridges. But the Atari 2600, as the VCS came to be called, ...

From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977.

Atari is returning to console manufacture with a new contraption called Ataribox. A teaser trailer for the Ataribox was released last week. It shows zoomed-in shots of what looks like wood panelling ...

The original Atari VCS console is being recreated in Lego form, complete with cartridges that can also be turned into scenes from the games. It seems it’s not just Nintendo that Lego has a licensing ...

On June 27, 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari in Sunnyvale, California. And it's safe to say that if this didn't happen, I'd be a different person. I spent my childhood living and ...