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On this day in pop culture history, Atari’s Pong game becomes partially responsible for the craze of video games and Jimmy ...

No one could have predicted that fifty-three years ago this game would have led to the success of the video game indsutry.

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ARGOS catalogues were lovingly dubbed “the book of dreams” and pored over by kids – and adults – for decades. The sound of ...

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The Atari 2600 Plus retro console, Pac-Man Edition Image: Atari / Bandai Namco I’ll be honest: Part of the reason I wanted the Pac-Man Edition Atari 2600 Plus console was because I thought it would ...

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition takes players on an interactive journey through Atari’s rich and colorful history through more than 140 classic games. When Atari 50: The ...

A look down memory lane however sees the golden years of the product registry feature everything from toys, household ...

Just as ancient cultures have founding myths, so does today’s multibillion-dollar global video game industry. The first titan of video games was Atari, which, in the early 1980s, put their 2600 video ...

Barbie existed for two years before her companion Ken hit the scene. He's great at doing stuff, and he was Kenough to be the ...

Remember the TV series Lost? About the plane that crashes on a desert island? Well, this is the real thing. Except the island was the Andes mountains, and the “lost” were a group of boys who would ...