Ah - the years I wasted with that console. In early 1980, I had a Coleco head-to-head football game. Might have been late 1979: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Coleco ...

You have to start a two-player game. The first player must stand at the right-hand corner of the first platform he stands on in the first level. When a trap comes down the vine, the player must jump ...

From 1977 to 1990, Atari released 57 games for its Atari 2600, including classic titles like Pong, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders. These games represent part of the home console origin story and were ...

From Atari Interactive, Inc. comes the Atari 2600+, the highly anticipated refresh of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), Atari’s legendary console that was first released in September 1977.

Mario gets credit for popularizing the platformer, but his anti-turtle rampage didn’t invent the genre. The history of platformers stretches all the way back to the early ‘80s with games like Donkey ...