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, or the company currently wearing that name, has officially opened its crowdfunding campaign for the Atari VCS, nee Ataribox - and has already smashed through its funding goal. Teased back in ...

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.

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, ...

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 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 ...