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Written entirely in MicroPython, Pixylatte's clone of the 1982 Atari classic River Raid is played on a Pimoroni Tufty2040, powered by Raspberry Pi Pico

Even Atari is getting in on the acquisitions game, as the retro game company announced its purchase of game port company Nightdive Studios

In 1985, Nintendo showed off a prototype for the Advanced Video System. This would eventually transform into the most important game console of all time.

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…

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

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

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

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

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