Arcade Pong

Pong revolutionized gaming and put a little gaming company named Atari on the map-and it was just the tip of the…

Last night I sat in front of an arcade machine in a darkened room of my house and played '80s arcade games until…

Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small "museum" of Soviet-era video games that had been opened…

Today's video game news was tinged with sadness, as the world learned of the death of Jerry Lawson, the man who led…

Atari just dropped a whirling, aliased asteroid in the iTunes App Store: Atari's Greatest Hits brings 100 classic…

So Nintendo's first home console was the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom, right? Nope. The company's first…

The negative video game news stories are always the easy ones to remember. But this past year was not a cesspool of…

Consumer products like soap aren't risky; they have a fairly reliable recipe for success. Nobody demands innovation…

Steve Wiebe, the protagonist of the documentary The King of Kong, famous for his pursuit of Donkey Kong's all-time…

In May of 1998 I grabbed my primitive digital camera, hopped on a MARTA train, and took my first stumbling steps as…