Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. Atari, one of the most storied brands in video game history ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

Before the time when Nintendo dominated the console space in the 80s, and long before the console wars of the 90s took over the world, video games had a different industry leader. Atari was the ...

When people reflect on the legacy of Atari, most either talk about the revolutionary Atari 2600 and its impact on in-the-house video games and game development prior to a major tech market crash, or ...

Early Atari games helped define video games as we know them with classics like Centipede, Asteroids, and Missile Command. For the legendary company’s 50th anniversary in 2022, it released Atari 50: ...

While technically not the first home video game console, the Atari 2600 was the console that really made the whole thing commercially viable. It wasn’t like the Pong consoles of years past that only ...