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Thirty years in, one of gaming's weirdest persisting legends is about to get mythbusted. The story is one of a fallen gaming great's secret shame: a landfill containing millions of copies of Atari's worst-selling, worst-received game ever: E.T.

Atari was right! This screenshot from the video game maker's online version of Asteroids illustrates the way the space rocks break up into smaller and smaller pieces, as recently witnessed by astronomers. (Credit: Video screenshot by Michael ...

"Avoid missing ball for high score." With those six words, Atari launched an industry in the early 1970s. The words were the complete instructions for Pong. Their brevity perfectly embodied Pong's simplicity, and simplicity was the basis of Pong's ...

Turn off that Atari and get to bed! My mom would yell up at me as I sat in my room, staring blankly at the TV screen. Like most kids do, Id stomp my feet in protest, struggling to pull myself away from whatever video game I was immersed in … ...

is an Atari ST emulator for Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X and other systems that are supported by the SDL library. More precisely, Hatari is an adaption of the WinSTon source code to the SDL library, using the portable UAE CPU core instead of the ...

When artist Adam Lister walks down the street, he tends to see the shapes behind the storefronts and pedestrians and trees. Sometimes, after a long day at the studio, he even dreams in geometric patterns. It's not surprising that Lister is a devotee ...

Delta Airlines has gone back in time with its latest in-flight safety video, continuing the trend of carriers looking to entertain, while educate their passengers. The short features icons Alf , Atari , Teddy Ruxpin and Rubik's Cube, and makes ...

In October of 1985, video games were dead in the water. The Atari and its competitors saturated the market with low-quality games designed with profit in mind. The general public had grown tired of the gaming fad and was moving back to traditional ...

Atari 2600. This was my first meeting with a computer. I was just a kid about 4-5 years old. I still remember those black joysticks and that Ping Pong game, which me and my kid sister could not stop playing for days on end. Dad was always in line ...