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First it was Sonar, and now, Snark! Yet another Atari prototype from the early days of the VCS has surfaced and is available to download & play. And it’s pretty complete! Snark can best be described as… well it really can’t be described in terms of another game. Snark it truly a unique idea, at […]

Welcome to a journey through a lesser-known facet of gaming history! In this captivating video, we delve into the realm of mature 18+ games that were released for the iconic Atari VCS (aka Atari 2600). ?? ?? **Game On: Mature Titles on Atari 2600** Join us as we peel back the layers of nostalgia and […]

Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Digital Eclipse Entertainment Partners Co (“Digital Eclipse”), a game development studio originally founded in 1992 focused on the digital restoration of classic video games, based in Emeryville, […]

With Atari, trackballs, and 5200 all in the news, what better time to open up & test an almost-new, complete-in-box Atari 5200 Pro-Line Trak-Ball controller from 1983! And that’s exactly what Jon did last week, but discovered that 40-year-old controller had a trackball which had yellowed dramatically over time. With the advice of GenXGrownUp viewers, […]

Spider-Man is a vertical scrolling action game programmed by Laura Nikolich for the Atari 2600, and released in 1982 by Parker Brothers. It was both the first video game to feature Spider-Man and the first Marvel Comics based video game. Norman Osborn has been removed of the Goblin formula and incarcerated by Spider-Man. He manages […]

Atlantis is a fixed shooter video game released by Imagic in July 1982 for the Atari 2600. It was written by Dennis Koble who also wrote Trick Shot for Imagic. Atlantis was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, VIC-20, Intellivision, and Magnavox Odyssey 2. Atlantis was a video game competition in which players of the […]