Polish engineer Piotr "Osa" Ostapowicz recently unveiled "Atarino," which may be the world's smallest 8-bit Atari computer re ...

The Atari 2600+ comes with one C40+ joystick in the box, which is visibly identical to the original, down to the original connector — no USB here. The joystick felt pleasantly familiar in our ...

It comes bundled with a gloriously imperfect Atari joystick, and really dedicated fans can even grab a pair of paddles separately. Every single piece I’ve tested looks and feels exactly as I ...

If you read about Atari issuing a new cartridge of a new Atari 2600 game and your first thought was, "What am I supposed to play this on?" there's an answer for you. Today, the company announced ...

You also get one classic Atari joystick, which has been outfitted with a USB plug and the sneaky addition of a few extra buttons, including a shoulder button and a clickable circle around the ...

The Atari 2600+ comes with a single joystick controller and a 10-in-one game cartridge, though it should support any of the old software and hardware you have lying around. Image: Atari Atari is ...

Those extras allowed for developers to make games with slightly more complex controls than the one-button Atari CX40 joystick allows for. The Mini version captures every detail of that device and ...

What I love about the Atari 2600+ is the decision to use the real Atari Joystick Port which would later become widely adopted by many other companies such as SEGA and Phillips after the fact.

Telling someone what your first video game console was is one of the easiest ways to give away your age without saying it outright. For me personally, I started out with handheld game consoles ...

Just make sure to use a controller with at least two Fire buttons, as the standard Atari joystick won’t cut it unless you set the auto-fire to on. If this Scramble port had come out for Atari ...

It also supports any Atari 2600 or 7800 game cartridges that you might already own. It was designed using "modern technology" and includes the system's iconic CX40 joystick built with the same ...

The Atari 400 and 800 signaled the start of a new era in computing. Breakout, by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino, was the first book to cover what made Atari’s groundbreaking computer ...