The Atari 2600 yielded a number of games in its day that are not only extremely hard to find, but could be worth a ton of ...

While technically not the first home video game console, the Atari 2600 was the console that really made the whole thing ...

Despite not being the first video game console ever made, for many, the Atari 2600 is the definitive beginning of home video game entertainment. Its hardware limitations resulted in games that relied ...

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Early Atari games helped define video games as we know them with classics like Centipede, Asteroids, and Missile Command. For the legendary company's 50th anniversary in 2022, it released Atari 50: ...

An Atari 2600 version of Tarzan from the early 1980s, which had once been thought lost forever, was recently rediscovered and made available to play online. A collector known as Rob “AtariSpot” was ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

If you were a child of the 1970s or '80s, there is a good chance that you played a game on an Atari game system. The first model — known as the Atari 2600 — was one of the first home game consoles to ...