Who doesn’t love old school games? But even the most ardent old school gaming fan may have trouble pulling the trigger on Atari’s brand new gaming console. The original Atari debuted in 1977, but this new model ain’t like the original. The Atari VCS is the first new gaming console in more than 20

Author: Jenny List / Source: Hackaday Should you ever pick up [Steve Wozniak]’s autobiography, you will learn that in the early 1970s when his friend [Steve Jobs] was working for Atari, [Woz] was designing calculators for Hewlett Packard. It seems scarcely believable today, but he describes his

Author: Brian Benchoff / Source: Hackaday The Game Genie is a classic of the early 90s video game scene. It’s how you would have beaten the Ninja Turtles game, and it’s why the connector in your NES doesn’t work as it should. They never made a Game Genie for the Atari 2600, though, because by the

Author: Lewin Day / Source: Hackaday Asteroids is one of the classic games of the early arcade era. Launched in 1979 by Atari, it relied upon using an XY vector monitor to deliver crisp graphics for its space-based gameplay. One of the limitations of the original arcade games was that the game

Author: Kevin Dickinson / Source: Big Think Easter eggs have been hidden in video games since Atari’s Adventure; now Google search has hidden an entire adventure game. A Reddit user discovered a hidden adventure game buried in Google search’s development console. The adventure game is the