The Atari 2600 Game Was Influential for Side-Scrollers Defender was a side-view, side-scrolling game in which gamers play a spaceship that is charged with protecting the astronauts on the unnamed ...

The Atari 2600's downfall was just as spectacular as its rise. In Japan, it became known as the "Atari shock." In the U.S., it was called the video game crash.

Atari's 1983 adaptation of E.T. was so bad it crashed the entire video-game industry, and the company is rumoured to have buried almost millions of copies in the desert ...

Launched in 1977, the Atari 2600 — also marketed at the time as the Atari Video Computer System — popularized at-home gaming after Atari released its "Pong" console two years prior.

The limited editions for each game include a newly manufactured, high-quality Atari 2600 cartridge made from special plastics, a premium poster, a printed instructional manual with bonus material ...