There's no doubt about it, the Atari 2600 / VCS is a pivotal device in the history of gaming. As one of the first machines capable of playing different games through cartridges, it is the ...

But the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982, left players scratching their heads – as laid out in a video by [Almost Something]. Atari had licensed Pac-Man to ride the wave of its arcade ...

[David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference. His 38-minute presentation rounds up to a full hour with the Q&A afterwards. It’s a ...

The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...