The best '80s game consoles include the NES and Sega Genesis.

I've got a shelf full of computer history books, many of which I love and have reread several times. But I wanted to write one that focused on the first real computer I grew up with, the one that ...

This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of Atari 8-bit computers. While ...

Bringing modern protocols and techniques to vintage computers is a favorite pastime for hackers, and over the years we’ve seen some absolutely incredible hardware and software projects designed ...

The long-awaited Atari VCS doesn't know if it wants to be a game console, a PC or something in between. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and ...

Atari also doesn’t like it when people call the VCS a “console.” That word implies a closed system, often sold at a loss, where the platform-holder has full control over the hardware and the apps and ...

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[Tony] posted an interesting video where he looks at the Atari 2600 and the way many companies tried to convert it into a real home computer. This reminded us of the ColecoVision, which started out as ...

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