Posts Tagged ‘2600’

Yars’ vs. Yar’s: 30 Years of Fighting Space Insects

Posted on May 23, 2011, 6:00 AM, by Flack, under Review.

I was eight-years-old in 1981 when Yars’ Revenge was released for the Atari 2600 console. At that time, Yars’ seemed a radical departure from most other available titles. Unlike the other games I owned at that time (Combat, Space Invaders, Basketball), the goal of Yars’ Revenge isn’t immediately discernible by simply looking at the playfield. […]

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Atari’s Greatest Hits (iPad)

Posted on April 25, 2011, 11:31 AM, by Flack, under Review.

Before any of us had heard of Nintendo, we had Atari. If you were a kid in the late 1970s or early 1980s, you either owned an Atari 2600, were friends with someone who did, or were a weird booger-eater that nobody cared about anyway. Those of us with fond memories of the Atari 2600 […]

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