The cartridge based game consoles of decades ago had a relatively simple modus operandi — they would run a program stored in a ROM in the cartridge, and on the screen would be the game for the ...

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In brief: Atari is launching the AtariXP program in which the retro gaming company will be selling unreleased 2600 games like Aquaventure, Saboteur and Yars' Return in cartridge format. These games ...

Sometimes the urge strikes to get busy coding for an old retro system, but unfortunately the bar to entry can be high. There’s a need to find a workable compiler, let alone trying to figure out how to ...

Ben Fry — one of those rare breeds of soul whose cerebral left-hemisphere is as dominated by programming as his right is by art — does some interesting art that is a fusion of the two: a series of ...

Now this is some fun stuff. A guy named Ed wanted to program for the Atari 2600 so he taught himself Atari assembly and created what amounts to Halo for the Atari. While the sprites are primitive and ...

While the Atari 2600 wasn't the first video game console, it helped define gaming as we know it. Rather than selling a machine that came with games pre-installed, the Atari 2600 used swappable ...