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How do you bring a 1982 Atari 2600 survival horror game up to date? Developer ImagineEngine and Atari show us how in a series of then and now images for the upcoming sequel to Haunted House. More »
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In 1981 Atari 2600 gamers took their first steps into the haunted Graves Mansion in Haunted House, the original survival horror console game. Now, nearly 30 years later, Atari prepares to drag us back, kicking and screaming. More »
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In November of 2007, Gametap promised to continue their Re/Visioned animation series, with comic book talent taking on classic Atari 2600 games. Now those shorts have finally seen the light of day, and they're brilliant. More »
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Fake ports of modern games? Yeah, it's been done before. Same with cart labels. But someone stuck them on actual carts, which will be hilarious once the next yard sale rolls around. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5162344&view=rss&microfeed=true It's been a while since I've posted one of these old commercials so I figured it was high time for a little retro gaming advertising goodness. For your consideration is this Atari 2600 Pifall commercial circa 1980 something. I guess they hadn't yet found the uber talent that is Jack Black to push their game so they decided to go with a bunch of crusty old British Explorer types and a completely bonkers American guy. Not quite the same somehow... except for the completely bonkers part. Interesting to note that they actually mention the name of the game's creator at the end as a selling point More »
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Not just another retro arcade title compilation that screws with the classics with often hilarious results, Atari Classics Evolved for the PSP is over 70 games in one! Not only do you get 11 classic Atari arcade titles like Asteroids, Battlezone, Tempest, Super Breakout, and Pong in both original and evolved versions, but you also get more than 60 Atari 2600 classics. Over 60 games that were once a whole lot of fun but now only amuse for a good minute before that "Hey, I remember this!" feeling wears off. Games so simple you can close your eyes and accurately play them using only your imagination. Hell, they might even be better that way. Having said that, I still plan on picking up the compilation when it hits this fall, if only for the joy of peer-to-peer wireless Pong. More »
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Look for vintage gaming fans to swarm Sotheby's in New York next Thursday as the mother lode of dumpster diving goodness goes on the auction block. Then they'll sort of awkwardly wander away when they realize the place is filled with men and women in expensive suits ready to bid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the lot of over 2000 pieces of original Atari marketing materials and artwork from 1981-1983 being offered there. More »
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The greatest action adventure game of all time, just got greater... More »
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My mother is a big time knitting and crochet freak, constantly trying to make me something that I would use out of yarn and sheer manual dexterity, to no avail. I could not imagine anything she could make that I would actually use, but now it becomes readily apparent that I just wasn't thinking hard enough. Or perhaps I should have let Jack Rabbit do the thinking for me. As you can see, she has some completely mad crochet skills: More »
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San Francisco Chronicle writer Peter Hautlaub makes an excellent suggestion for those too poor or too unlucky to acquire a shiny new next-gen system for the gamer in your life. Go retro. The article lists several financial situations, and the perfect classic gaming system to satisfy both wallets and game cravings. More »
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We've all heard it before, the story of the Great Atari Landfill. According to legend, Atari 2600's E.T. game sold so terribly, that in an attempt to literally bury the stink-bomb, a landfill was created out of all the unsold copies. More »
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In a bizarre first for video games "journalism", over at Toybane they reviewed the Atari 2600 joystick key ring that we wrote about last month. This post's image? The crazy ass wire and battery pack that allows it to hook up to your television. More »
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Back in the good ol' days of Atari, there wasn't a lot of story you could cram into a few kilobytes. To counter this, Atari teamed up with DC to distribute mini-comics along with Atari 2600 games. One was a long-running series of comics about a group of extraterrestrial super heros called Atari Force; Swordquest, a line distributed with Waterworld, Earthworld and Fireworld, Centipede and Yar's Revenge. More »
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Nothing like those homebrew devs who throw the whole hog over their shoulder. Simon Quernhorst has released a brand new Atari 2600 game called A-VCS-Tec Challenge. It's available not only in ROM form, but Quernhorst is producing a limited edition run of 55 cartridges to go along with it. More »
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Man, why do controllers have so many buttons? What kind of digital Briareus do you have to be to control two joysticks, four face buttons and four shoulder buttons at once? It's like these controllers have been designed specifically for the next stage in human evolution: the ten-fingered mutant...hey. *counts* Wait a second. More »
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