The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...

Lego quietly began the process of retiring its Atari 2600 building ... landline phone, TV, posters, and a boom box. The buildable cartridges are also based on real games like Asteroids, Centipede ...

That's because, while it is 80% smaller than the original, the forthcoming Atari 2600+ is no locked device running pre-installed, emulated games. It plays the exact same cartridges I coveted as a kid.

But it was wildly experimental by the standards of the era, and these days is regarded as one of the best Atari 2600 games. Yars' Revenge will be playable within Yars Rising, and the new game will ...