Each cartridge comes in a specially designed box made just for the box set, with the full Atari 50 logo visible on the spines when all 10 game boxes are lined up together. The full box set making ...

Invariably, video games have to be marketed differently today, but when you picked up a box for an Atari 2600 game—the art bursting with color and trying to escape the frame at every corner—it ...

Nearly three decades since the Atari 2600’s discontinuation, ... and all will come complete in Atari 2600-style boxes. Just 1,983 copies of each limited-edition cartridge will be made, ...

The 2600+ packaging is quite nice, actually. Inside the box you'll find the console, a quick-start guide, a joystick, a 10-in-1 game, HDMI cable, and USB to USB-C power cable.

"My covers kind of fired up that imagination." First released in 1977, the Atari 2600 — or Atari VCS, as it was originally known — wasn’t the first home video game console.

T he Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, ... The Lost Caverns, if for no other reason than having one of the best sky boxes on the Atari 2600. Yars Revenge ...

There are several potential starting points for this article, but for the sake of hitting the widest possible nostalgia group, let’s go with the Atari 2600. Unlike today, where boxes are rigidly ...

Then came adult-driven packaging, signaled by sleek black boxes and a marketing campaign that gleefully declares ‘Adults Welcome’. Like a lot of the best kids’ toys, ... the Atari 2600.

To augment the relaunch, Atari rereleased many of its most popular and highest-quality titles in red boxes, including some that came late in the 2600’s life, such as Crystal Castles and Pole ...

Unlike the cheaper Flashback systems of yesteryear which were plastic plug-and-play boxes made to simulate the look and feel of the original Atari 2600 machine, the 2600+ goes all in on authenticity.

Atari’s ‘80s-inpsired gaming lineup includes the wood-paneled 2600+ and streamlined 7800+, along with the Atari 400 Mini and VCS digital gaming set top boxes.