Atari and Jeff Minter have announced that they are working together to create a reimagining of I, Robot -- no, not the movie. I, Robot is an Atari title from 1984 notable both for being one of the ...

A cartridge for the game “is thought to have been discovered by a collector at a flea market in central Florida in the mid 1990s,” writes deep-dive game researcher Matt Reichert at the Atari ...

Alcorn has teamed up with Silicon Valley game veteran Roger Hector (who has worked on more than 100 titles, including Sonic the Hedgehog and Madden NFL Football) to form a new company called ...

Perhaps you've heard stories of the mythical Atari landfill in New Mexico full of unsold E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial games. Well, there's actually nothing mythical about it: the E.T. game landfill ...

And, infamously, after Atari made the mistake of ordering 4 million copies of the game, many of them ended up in a New Mexico landfill. E.T. also almost killed the video game industry entirely.

June 1982 - E.T. The Extra-terrestrial And Atari Are On Top Of The World. In 1982, ... December 1982 - E.T. The Extra-terrestrial Atari Game Hits Stores, And Flops Hard.

Now that video games are a $21 billion industry in the U.S., Alcorn said, “It wasn’t my intention. I’m just as surprised as the next guy.” Back then, Atari was able to take a lot of risks.

It’s been called the worst video game in history, but could E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial really be the cause of Atari’s downfall? In the new documentary “Atari: Game Over” director Zak Penn ...

That’s Atari founder and mass-market video game creator Nolan Bushnell’s advice to the current chief executive of Atari SA FR:ATA Wade Rosen.. The two sat down to chat on the 50th anniversary ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Allan Alcorn, the creator of Pong, about how the game impacted the industry and his life. Pong was released by Atari 50 years ago.