To celebrate its half-century, three early enthusiasts offered Retroplay a 100% Atari exhibition. Thus, the seven standards that have been developed and marketed under the emblematic brand will be presented… without forgetting the first generation consoles that have made the success story of Atari.

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Forty years ago, the international Pac-Man tournament took place on the Atari VCS. Retroplay repeats the event by endeavoring to reproduce a certain number of elements that made it fun and charming. Thus, the participants will have a participation voucher (replica of the vintage one, opposite) and the finalists will win games, and the champion will leave with an Atari 2600 console accompanied by the Pac-Man cartridge!

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As usual, Zeelay takes up traditional blues and themes from the pop music of the last fifty years. But this time, it is accompanied by 8-bit rhythms projecting us into a cosmic rock. Alternating the voice with his electric solos, Zeelay offers us a journey elsewhere, in alternative atmospheres to say the least.

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Complementary to the traditional joystick, the paddle combines speed with precision thanks to its large analog button. This article presents the paddle and offers an overview of the thirteen games published by Atari for this controller which is said to be able to do everything that the joystick does not allow.

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What happens when you put an Atari 7800 Ntsc cartridge in a 7800 Pal console? It can work, but the result is not always guaranteed. This article gives the answer in detail, game by game.

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Far from being faithful to the original, Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 has been the subject of much criticism. Others defend it by claiming that they had great fun playing it as children. What to think today of the most famous video game on the planet when it was ported to the first major console.

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To avoid having the video cable hanging from the console when you move it, the mod-av is the ideal solution. But a user had a funny idea to achieve the same benefit. A rather crazy idea.

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Known to Atarimania, which had known about it for a long time, the Taptexte software was one of those prototypes lost forever. But it turns out that I knew his programmer and that he had left me a copy!

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(Automatically translated into English) It was first with the idea of having an Atari 2600 that could be controlled remotely that I imagined a hack with specific connections. It quickly became clear that if this connection were of the DB9 type, we could thus have two additional joystick ports and thus design games for four players at the same time.

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(Automatically translated into English) During the first half of the 1970s, Atari was the most innovative video game company in the industry. In the second half, after its takeover by Warner, it continued to innovate in games, but also in derivative products. Little known to the French, because never imported, the first video game comics brought literature that was sorely lacking in games unable to display text on the screen.

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(Automatically translated into English) It is to meet the musical requirements of Synthcart that I imagined a hardware hack for the Atari 2600. Subject to criticism and suggestions from The Silly Walker, he then made a realization that fully fulfills his objective.

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We are told that its design descends directly from the 5200, that it is compatible with the 2600 and that it combines the power of these two (2600 + 5200 = 7800). All of this is true enough, but beyond these similarities, the Atari 7800 is an original console that has its own graphic identity and gameplay of its own.

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Here are some Atari VCS games, hacked just a little bit to offer a new pleasure and to (re)discover them. Pac-Man Mutation, Tron Invaders, Dark Mage and Go Get Fat are now avaible. Enjoy them!

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(Automatically translated into English) Some publishers adjust the packaging of their products according to the country of destination. Atari has never bothered with these considerations ... ever? Not quite, as there are a few exceptions. Holding almost on the ten fingers of the hand, we make a presentation of it, of which the future will tell us if it is exhaustive.

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The Barwin's Timeline is the easiest way to understand the story of the 65 consoles of the video game industry. Chromatically coloured, the background offers an elegant poster wherever you will use it.

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Everytime I made a game, I tried to achieve something not already seen on the Atari 2600 : two field of stars in parallax scrolling (Allia Quest), 3D algorithm (Merlin's Walls), Text-scrolling (Power Off!)...
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From the Magnavox Odyssey to the Nintendo Wii, here is the story of thirty-five of the most iconic consoles of the first fifty years of video game history. The book ends with a list of the 68 known video games consoles standards and the Barwin's Timeline is also included at the very end of the book.
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(Automatically translated into English) Little known fact, the French Atari 2600 games go slower than the original American editions. This results in a slight loss of interest whatever the game, and more strongly for certain titles which have particularly suffered from it, such as Moon Patrol or Galaxian. History, technical explanation and solution ...
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(Automatically translated into English) Howard Scott Warshaw, is the author of some very good games on Atari VCS: Yar's Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. The latter is certainly the most criticized game on the Atari 2600 console ...
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