Thirty years ago this fall, video game pioneer Atari released its first two entrants in the home-computer market: the Atari 800 and 400 computers. Originally retailing for $1000, the Atari 800 shipped ...

This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of Atari 8-bit computers. While ...

Ben Heck has completed his latest project, and I think this one is one of the coolest ones we have seen from Ben to date, the Atari 800 Laptop. Earlier this year I finished the long-gestating ...

On holidays like Thanksgiving, part of the togetherness (especially with my older brother) has always included video games—especially games for our first computer, the Atari 800. Released in 1979, ...

To most people, the name "Atari" will forever be synonymous with its first game system, the Atari 2600, launched in 1977 (relive it with an emulator). But few recall that Atari launched a pioneering ...

I've got a shelf full of computer history books, many of which I love and have reread several times. But I wanted to write one that focused on the first real computer I grew up with, the one that ...

I was a huge Atari fan as a kid. I grew up with an Atari 800 home computer as my first game machine before the great video game crash swept away Atari's fortunes. After the Nintendo Entertainment ...