The concept of a game wherein the protagonist is a featureless yellow ravening maw, intent on devouring everything in its path, appeals...

So, maybe you never played Dragonstomper on the old Atari 2600. Maybe you never plugged in the supercharger cartridge adapter connected...

In 1982, we were all Indiana Jones. Well, Pitfall Harry, anyway. Swashbuckling heroes, navigating jungles of doubt and underground...

Some games were just too big for eight bits. And so Atari came up with the Supercharger, a cartridge you would plug into the console that...

The Atari 2600 came into our house in 1981 or 1982, when I was six or seven years old and my brother eight or nine. We were excited,...

Some games fared poorly when ported from full arcade cabinet splendor into the confines of an Atari cartridge or a home computing system....

In 1979, Atari was riding the crest of the first home video game boom. So high, in fact, that despite tens of millions of dollars in...

I was probably around six or seven years old when the Atari 2600 showed up in our house. 1981, 1982, something like that. This was, as my...