The Atari 2600+ Pac-Man edition even keeps a hint of woodgrain!

Atari's latest tribute to the past nails the look and feel of the 1977 console, but a reliance on emulation is holding it back from achieving its full potential.

Atari is teaming up with Plaion on a new retro home console after finally taking a mulligan on its last one. The Atari 2600+ pays homage to the original Atari 2600, which delighted children of the ...

Readers of a certain age no doubt remember the Atari 2600 — released in 1977, the 8-bit system helped establish the ground rules for gaming consoles as we know them today, all while sporting … ...

The Atari 2600+ runs on USB power and connects to your screen via HDMI, with support for multiple resolutions. It is 20% smaller than the original Atari 2600. The full list of games can be seen below.

The console can play both Atari 2600 and 7800 game cartridges, and Atari even enlarged the cartridge socket to reduce sticking. Notably, the system uses emulation technology to play game cartridges.

Decades later, knowing the hardware of the 2600, with NONE VRAM, the ride-the-beam principle, and this game, I was astonished to try it (on emulator) and working well, as the original arcade game.

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 ...

A new version of the Atari 2600 will be releasing this fall, and it will be compatible with classic games released for the original platform, as well as the Atari 7800. Releasing on November 17th ...

Following the trend of re-releasing every single game console as some kind of modern re-imagining or merely an ARM-SBC-with-emulator slapped into a nice looking enclosure, we now got the announceme… ...