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Raspberry Pi Pico Converts Retro Controllers for Classic Gaming Experience

Using the Raspberry Pi Pico to bridge the legacy connections from retro controllers, CTRLDock Classic SE enables real controllers for your retro gaming sessions.

Tom’s Hardware

Vahe Gregorian: ‘It’s not just a video game’: Negro Leagues baseball comes alive in ‘MLB The Show 23’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last home video game Bob Kendrick played with any regularity was via Atari, circa the Jurassic Era of the genre in the late 1970s/early ‘80s.

Tribune News Service

‘The right to miss’: How Dr. J changed video-game history and paved the way for Madden

One in a series of stories remembering the 1982-83 76ers, one of the NBA’s best teams ever.

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Nightdive reassures fans about the Atari deal: 'Not only will we be doing as much as we ever did, but we'll be doing more of it'

News of the buyout didn't go over very well with fans, but Nightdive and Atari both say they have shared goals in "innovative" retro gaming.

PC Gamer

Raspberry Pi Pico Plays MicroPython River Raid

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

Tom’s Hardware

Atari enters the acquisition game with Nightdive Studios purchase

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

USA Today Sports Media Group

The spirit of 80s racing games lives on in Lego 2K Drive

A new collaboration between 2K Games and Lego takes the form of an open-world racing game with buildable, breakable cars

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Atari acquires System Shock remake developer for $10 million

The deal is expected to be completed in April 2023

GamesRadar

Asylum seekers in Britain are obliged to grit their teeth

Dental treatment is hard to get when you’re waiting for refugee status – but no worse than if you are a British resident

The Guardian - UK

You Need to Play the Most Important Metroid Game on Nintendo Switch ASAP

While a step backwards in terms of graphical fidelity, 'Metroid 2: Return of Samus' is a lo-fi masterpiece in terms of atmosphere and game design.

Inverse

38 years ago, a goofy Nintendo prototype changed video games forever

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.

Inverse

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…

The Conversation

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

Inverse

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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Inverse

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.

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Reason

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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The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

Inverse

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.

Wales Online

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

It even comes with a moveable joystick

USA Today Sports Media Group

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.

The Guardian - UK

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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