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.

The Atari 2600 is back – as a LEGO set. LEGO announced last week that it will be releasing a recreation of the popular video game console on Aug. 1 for $239.99. The LEGO Atari 2600 set is based on the ...

Blow the dust off your old Atari 2600 console. Apparently, there are still new games coming out for it. The Atari 2600 first arrived in homes in 1977 and is nearly 50 years old, ceasing production in ...

The Atari 2600, which was one of the first modern consoles when it was released 46 years ago in 1977, is making a comeback. Atari and publisher Plaion have announced the Atari 2600+, which is ...

The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed ...

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT is seemingly still less smart — at certain tasks, at least — than an Atari game console from almost 50 years ago. In a post on LinkedIn, Citrix software engineer ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was ...

This bulky, serious looking piece of electronic equipment did one thing and one thing only: The Atari Video Music system was the first consumer waveform visualizer. You could plug RCA outputs from ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT lost a chess game against an old Atari 2600 game console released in 1977. This console has only 128 bytes of RAM. An experiment conducted by American infrastructure architect Robert ...

What it’s about: Only the most high-tech fun 1977 had to offer! While ’70s video game nostalgia centers around Atari’s Pong and 2600 systems, and—in the early ’80s—competitors Intellivision and ...

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