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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 9 - The Untold Story

Innovative products lead to a boom in imitation and often a bust - just look at Atari and Bitcoin

Buried in a dusty landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, are more than 700,000 discarded Atari game cartridges, including E.T., the 1982 Atari game based on the blockbuster film. This bleak trove of artifacts symbolizes the video game crash of 1983, when consumer demand plummeted and companies like Atari literally dumped…

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40 years ago, one woman changed the video game industry forever

Carol Shaw's 'River Raid' became a million-seller and paved the way for female game devs everywhere

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Zelda, Super Mario and other retro Nintendo games selling for as much as £700,000

From Clayfighter and Super Mario Bros to Pac-Man and The Legend of Zelda, some of your old neglected software may be a gold mine for you

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Nintendo needs to treat its older games with more respect

Nearly four decades after the release of the NES, too many of Nintendo's classic video games are inaccessible to modern players.

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‘No one had seen anything like it’: how video game Pong changed the world

It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic

The Guardian - UK

‘My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!’ Meet the people clinging on to old tech – from faxes to VCRs

You can keep your iPhones, emails and streaming videos. Aren from London, Lisa from St Louis and Billy from Wigan are quite happy with old-fashioned alternatives. And there are plenty more where they came from

The Guardian - UK

It's Been 50 Years Since Humans Walked on the Moon

The last time there was a manned mission to the moon, Pong had just been released on Atari.

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I am 50 years old and have a video game addiction – is that so wrong?

Mark Beaumont, a child of the Atari joystick generation, always assumed he’d get over video games. It’s proven not to be the case. Now that he’s a father of one, his gaming has taken on a more clandestine hue

The Independent UK

LEGO Atari 2600 review: An incredible nostalgic recreation that pays perfect homage

LEGO celebrate Atari's 50th anniversary with an nostalgic model of their 2600 console

Daily Mirror

40 years ago, this classic Atari game redefined platformers forever

Despite being one of the Atari 2600's most popular games, the influence of 'Pitfall!' is easy to overlook. Here's why this classic is still a marvel 40 years on.

Inverse

'Alone in the Dark' trailer, developer, and platforms for the horror reboot

The franchise that started the survival horror genre is being rebooted by THQ Nordic and it looks like a worthy rival to Resident Evil. Here's what we know.

Inverse

LEGO launches Atari 2600 set with games and a 'gaming room'

It even comes with a moveable joystick

Wales Online

How one movie tie in video game crashed the entire industry

Atari's E.T the Extra-Terrestrial game is one of the industry's biggest failures. Here's the story of how it happened.

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There is no objective history of video games – every player’s experience is different

Depending on where you lived and which consoles or computers you had as a child, the story plays out completely differently – and we should embrace that subjectivity

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The 1980s items that could be worth a fortune as Stranger Things reignites nostalgia

Have you got any of these hiding in your loft?

The Guardian - UK

Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much

In this week’s newsletter: As the revolutionary company celebrates a half-century, we look back at everything video games owe to Atari

360info

As arcade games died out, Asteroids lived on

It was a few white lines on a black screen, but Asteroids became Atari’s most popular arcade game.

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Inside the unique Whitley Bay café where you can play retro video games

Retro Bay Café boasts a selection of classics from Nintendo, Sega, Atari and more, spanning from the 1970s

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Rare Steve Jobs Items Hit the Auction Block

Items from the birth of Apple, home computing and video gaming are up for grabs at an auction, which will conclude on March 17. The top lot from "The Steve Jobs Revolution: Engelbart, Atari, and Apple" auction is a July 1976 check to pay $3,430 for parts for the Apple…

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Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard: with the video game industry under new management, what's going to change?

In 1979, a group of disgruntled Atari employees decided to quit and create their own company. Activision was the world’s first “third-party” game development company, producing and publishing titles for other companies’ platforms.

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