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Atari Brings Reto Games Online for Free
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two offerings were originally published on the Atari 2600: Adventure and Yar's Revenge, both awesome games for its 4-bit time.Unfortunately, it seems that word travels quick: the Atari website is experiencing heavy traffic of sorts, thus timing out when trying...
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Atari 7800 Source Code Rescued
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platform, following the unsuccessful 5200 and the highly popular 2600. The Atari 7800 tried to regain the company's stance as a leading console manufacturer, however eventually trailed behind the Nintendo Entertainment System.Head here to Atari 7800 source...
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Toys 'R' Us Taking Used Games, Even Old Ones
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Toys 'R' Us Taking Used Games, Even Old Ones. toysrus used games trading atari. Now you can finally trade in your Intellivision and Atari 2600 games at... TRU?. The used games business, while still ruled by GameStop, is now getting bigger than ever. Gamers...
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When Do Players Become Haters?
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Can gaming make kids violent? Can geeks gone wild get by on solar power?. Question: Does violence in video games beget violence in real life? Answer: Undetermined, but probably not. I grew up in the Atari 2600 era, when gamers shot up asteroids...
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Young and Susceptible
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the many hours logged in for regular studies, there are also the dangers of gaming. I remember the inevitable hand cramping that came from hours of play on my old Atari 2600 console. More recently, the joints in my left fingers went through about two weeks...
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Jack Thompson Sues Facebook for $120 Million
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on 60 Minutes. Users started a "We Hate Jack Thompson" group which they used to post comments such as, "Jack Thompson should be smacked across the face with an Atari 2600." Thompson says in his lawsuit that he sent faxes to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in...
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R2-D2 Made Into Ultimate Retro Games Console
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wish we could have our very own R2-D2, and this is why: PopSci reader Brian De Vitis took an R2-D2 cooler and stuffed it with the innards of eight consoles (by our count, it has an Xbox, PlayStation, NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Dreamcast, and Atari 2600)...