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 ...

Adventure of Samsara, the modern revival of the Atari 2600's classic Adventure, is a metroidvania with soulslike elements (resting at golden anvils restores your healing flasks and respawns ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot.

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.

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 ...

In a unique experiment, an engineer pitted the latest ChatGPT 4o model against his Atari 2600's chess engine on the beginner difficulty level, and ChatGPT got handily defeated, eventually conceding.

An Atari 2600 chess cartridge has humiliated OpenAI's vaunted ChatGPT, highlighting the limits that large language models still face outside pure text. What Happened: Citrix engineer Robert Caruso ...

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 ...