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The Atari 400 Mini is a fantastic retro console time capsule for playing classics like Pac-Man, but it'll also help you ...
Kevin Courtney takes a walk down memory lane and arrives in the present day looking at a range of retro gadgets ...
Atari is proving that retro gaming isn’t just a nostalgic fling—it’s a full-on revival. In 2025, new cartridges for the Atari 2600 and 7800 are still being produced, fueled by the popularity ...
A follow up to 2007's Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984, this reference work features write-ups for EVERY U.S.-released game for the Nintendo NES, the Atari 7800, and the Sega Master System. (The ...
Atari has announced that Fatal Run 2089, the upcoming racing revival for the Switch, will launch in Fall 2025. The accompanying gameplay trailer gives us a fresh look at the new post-apocalyptic ...
AI Gaming chess chatgpt ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600 AI models have no clue about what chess actually is, or which moves are valid By Alfonso Maruccia June 10, 2025 at 12:50 ...
Atari and developer Choice Provisions have provided a new update for Breakout Beyond on Switch. It's good news for those who weren't keen on the new landscape orientations – you can now play in ...
Atari had licensed Pac-Man to ride the wave of its arcade success, but the home version, programmed solely by [Todd Fry], missed the mark, turning an arcade icon into a surprising lesson in over ...
ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console.
7800basic is a BASIC-like language for creating Atari 7800 games. It is a compiled language that runs on a computer, and it creates a binary files that can be run with Atari 7800 emulators and flash ...
As reported by Futurism, ChatGPT lost a chess game against the classic Atari 2600 gaming console. Robert Caruso, an engineer at Citrix, organised the game between the AI and a simple 1977 chess ...