Combat in a real way, was the original game console, predating the Atari 2600 with its own single-game ... and bombers that shoot one big, single "bomb" at other planes. If you mastered either ...

As Activision’s F-14 Tomcat game for the Atari 2600 console, it seemed ripe for use as a project enclosure of some sort. When he came across a couple of 9-pin D-sub joystick ports, he had an idea.

Remember the pistol controller for the original Atari 2600? No? Perhaps that’s because it never existed. But now that we’re living in the future, adding a pistol to the classic games of the ...

Video games are more than a pastime for me. Starting with my first love, an Atari 2600, in the early 1980s, they've shaped the course of my life in fundamental ways. Adam Rosenberg is a Senior ...