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The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. The VCS was bundled with two […]

“You must try to destroy the Enemy; Sark and the MCP (Master Control Program) by making the Enemy Light Cycle crash and by destroying Sark’s Rings and finally by penetrating the MCP Barrier and destroying the MCP.” So says the manual to Tomytronic’s 1981 Tron Handheld video game. This particular copy of the unit is […]

Working our way through the new LEGO Atari 2600 set, and in this video, we finally get to the construction of that instantly-recognizable controller, the Atari CX-40 joystick. We take a look at the build of the model, the mechanism that allows it to work, and most importantly, see how it stacks up when compared […]

ColecoVision is a second-generation home video-game console developed by Coleco and launched in North America in August 1982. It was released a year later in Europe by CBS Electronics as the CBS ColecoVision. The console offered a closer experience to more powerful arcade video games compared to competitors such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. […]

Jon is a Donkey Kong fanatic, pure and simple. Yet somehow, this 2006 mod for the original Donkey Kong arcade cabinet flew under his radar until a recent trip to the Daytona Arcade Museum, where one of the cabinets was outfitted with it. It adds new screens and cut-scenes that were never there, and tweaks […]

POLE POSITION is a classic 1982 arcade racing game by Namco. It became the highest-grossing arcade game in Japan in 1982 and the most popular coin-operated game internationally in 1983. In North America, it was the top-grossing arcade game in 1983 and 1984, and remained in the top five in 1985. In Pole Position, players […]