Pac-Man is a classic and iconic game franchise that has stood the test of time for 45 years, and that has now resulted in a ...

It comes with 10 games on a cartridge, but additional games and controllers are also up for preorder. Even cooler: it’s backwards compatible with original Atari 2600 and 7800 games.

You can pre-order an Atari 2600 My Play Watch now, for $79.99, with shipping due from June 10. The watch is similar to a Kickstarter project from the same My Play Watch watch-making team, from ...

The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to mainstream entertainment in a way gaming had never done before.

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.

In this photo taken on August 12, 2017, a visitor poses with a T-shirt depicting an Atari 2600 video game console from the early 1980s, during the Retro.HK gaming expo in Hong Kong.

It's time to dust off your old Atari cartridges as the company again tries to tap into gaming nostalgia with an updated version of its iconic Atari 2600, which will ship with a 10-in-1 cartridge ...

The Atari 2600+ runs on USB power and connects to your screen via HDMI, with support for multiple resolutions. It is 20% smaller than the original Atari 2600. The full list of games can be seen below.

To learn more, we spoke with Senior Sales and Marketing Director David Lowey. Lowey talks about the evolution of the Atari 2600+ in comparison with the Atari VCS, which was released back in 2021.

The Atari 2600+ is not to be confused with the Atari VCS, an AMD Ryzen-powered (but aging) mini desktop PC that also emulates old Atari games but does a few other things on top of that.

The moment I heard about the Atari 2600+, I called my mom and asked if our old system was still in storage somewhere. It was, continuing to endure decades later like a cockroach. I had her ship up ...