GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nostalgic Atari fans can add the Atari 400 Mini to their collection for only $97.19 for a limited time. This is the lowest price yet for the ...

[rossumur]’s first computer was an Atari 400, and after riding a wave of nostalgia and forgetting the horrible keyboard found in the Atari 400, he decided it was time to miniaturize the venerable ...

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 ...

The Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS in old money) has turned 45. If you owned one back in the day, congratulations: you’re old. But rather than count the years until you collect your bus pass, let’s ...

Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation looks back at how the Atari 8-bit lineup came to be, how it was designed, and its entire 13-year production run, from the original 400/800 ...

Back in the early 1980s, there was a certain fad in making your computer produce something resembling human speech. There were several hardware solutions to this, adding voices to everything from ...

A recreated Atari 400 for the 2020s is going up for pre-order right now by Retro Games. For $120, owners get to enjoy emulated Atari 8-bits games (25 pre-installed, others side-loadable) with the ...

Here's one for those of us interested in the early days of home computing. UK based Retro Games is set to release the Atari 400 Mini, a modern take on the Atari 400 home computer, complete with a ...

Fellow Atari computer fans, our prayers have been answered: a mini console is finally on the way. Retro Games Ltd. and Atari have unveiled The400 Mini, an emulated Atari 8-bit system in a tiny form ...

John P. Falcone is the senior director of commerce content at CNET, where he coordinates coverage of the site's buying recommendations alongside the CNET Advice team (where he previously headed the ...

Atari’s 8-bit console had a short-lived shelf life, meaning its collection of games is quite slim. Fortunately for owners it was host to some cracking arcade conversions and has gone on to receive a ...

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 ...