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Target Fun (known as Air-Sea Battle from Atari) was released in 1977 by Sears as a launch title for the Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade. An amazing multiplayer competitive game, some players (including me) didn’t even realize that it included single-player “robot” variations. Let’s find out what passed for artificial computer intelligence in a game from […]

Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while avoiding not to get hit. Your task is to tunnel […]

You no doubt know the story of how Yars’ Revenge came about when Howard Scott Warshaw was assigned to port Star Castle to the Atari VCS. The system just wasn’t quite capable, but with a little re-design, a new and now classic game was born. I don’t know for a fact that similar evolution took […]

You won’t believe this—OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model just got wrecked by an Atari 2600 playing chess! That's right, 8-bit tech from the '70s showed modern AI who's boss. In this episode of Bit By Bit, we break down the hilarious and humbling defeat. But that’s not all—Commodore just shocked a major retro tech YouTuber by offering to SELL the entire company, and Microsoft dropped jaws at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025 with Invincible: VS, a bold, retro-inspired brawler set to land in 2026. ?? Retro vs AI, legacy brands making moves, and a throwback-style fighter—this is one retro news update you don’t want to miss! ? Like, Subscribe, and hit that ? to stay plugged in! ? Hashtags: #RetroGaming #Atari2600 #ChatGPT #Commodore64 #XboxShowcase #InvincibleVS #BitByBit #GenXGrownUp #GamingNews #ClassicGaming - LINKS Atari VS ChatGPT - https://tinyurl.com/mwttm9ht Commodore For Sale - https://tinyurl.com/298nvkpm 10 Best Video Games TV Show Appearances - https://tinyurl.com/bdddy6ce Invincible VS - https://tinyurl.com/mvamzhkc - SHOP http://genxgrownup.com/amazon http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch - PODCAST http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod - SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/genxgrownup - WEB & SOCIAL http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp https://bsky.app/profile/genxgrownup.com https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ http://GenXGrownUp.com - SPONSORS King of Nerds » http://kingofnerds.tv Order of Cosmic Champions » http://www.orderofcosmicchampions.com - CHAPTERS 0:00 - Atari VS ChatGPT 1:52 - Commodore For Sale 3:18 - 10 Best Video Games TV Show Appearances 6:49 - Invincible VS

Yars’ Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and is Atari’s best-selling original game for the 2600. The player controls an insect-like creature called a Yar who must nibble or shoot through a barrier in order to fire its Zorlon Cannon into the […]

Adventures of Tron is a platform video game produced by Mattel in 1982 for the Atari 2600. ? See MORE Friday Plays RIGHT NOW! ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzlP98g2_tE&list=PL13zHeyDr6xswcm1YMnJivU0jefJIOLcb&index=2&ab_channel=GenXGrownUp It is based on the Disney film Tron. The game was originally intended to be a port of the Intellivision video game Tron: Maze-A-Tron, but it became an original […]