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Steve Jobs’ first Silicon Valley boss turned down an offer to buy a third of Apple for $50,000—today, his share would be worth nearly $1 trillion

Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell missed out on becoming a trillionaire because he snubbed an offer from his ex-employee, the late Steve Jobs.

Fortune

'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming

And maybe we're all in the mind of another AI, howaboutthat?

PC Gamer

You can now pre-order Atari's 2600+ Pac-Man Edition console, but I find its price just as scary as its release date

The upcoming Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition console and joysticks are now up for pre-order at Amazon, but it costs $40 more than the 2023 version.

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'Missile Command Delta' Director Hopes the Game Leaves You Questioning Tyranny

'Missile Command Delta' is a bold reimagining of an arcade classic, and the game's Cold War inspirations were a huge part of finding a new identity.

Inverse

Bandai Namco and Atari reveal the Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition to celebrate the arcade icon's 45th anniversary

Pac-Man's 45th anniversary celebration continues with an unexpected hardware collab with Atari.

TechRadar

3 years later, my favorite retro game collection is getting fresh DLC complete with the "first-ever re-release" of the broken Pac-Man port that became the best-selling game of the pre-Nintendo era

Bad games deserve to be in these collections, too

GamesRadar

Google Gemini crumbles in the face of Atari Chess challenge — admits it would 'struggle immensely' against 1.19 MHz machine, says canceling the match most sensible course of action

Google Gemini decided to call off its chess match against the ancient 1.19 Mhz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot.

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Copilot and ChatGPT went against a 4 KB Atari chess game from the 70s — with an embarrassing effort from Microsoft's AI

An almost 50-year-old Atari Chess game left both Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT LLM chatbots in defeat against 4KB of ancient technology.

Windows Central

Atari Video Chess checkmates Copilot after knocking over ChatGPT's king

When two of the most advanced AI models lost to a 1979 chess game, it exposed how sounding smart isn’t the same as actually thinking.

TechRadar

45 Years Later, A Classic Atari Series Just Got A Bold Reimaging

Missile Command Delta is a subtly ingenious reimagination of one of the all-time great arcade game experiences.

Inverse

Space Invaders creator recalls building arcade games with mirrors, making a prototype console that never saw release, and how short-sighted Taito's sales team was about videogames: 'These things will never sell'

"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games… there is something shining within them."

PC Gamer

From Pong to Wii Sports: the surprising legacy of tennis in gaming history

From the lab-born Tennis for Two to the console classics of Nintendo and Sega, the sport has been a constant, foundational force in gaming’s rise

The Guardian - UK

Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot humiliates itself in Atari 2600 chess showdown — another AI humbled by 1970s tech despite trash talk

Microsoft Copilot is the latest AI to have been trounced in Atari Chess, despite its pre-game confidence in a victory.

Tom’s Hardware

This tiny Atari console is naturally great for Pac-Man, but I use it to play one of the most cursed retro games from the '80s

The Atari 400 Mini is a fantastic retro console time capsule for playing classics like Pac-Man, but it'll also help you easily try forgotten oddities.

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Atari's reboot of Mad Max-style racer Fatal Run is coming later this year, and its new trailer shows a hefty dose of Burnout in its irradiated DNA

Mad tracks.

GamesRadar

"Notoriously obtuse hardware" meant Mortal Kombat 4 has "never accurately" come to home consoles, but Legacy Kollection found a way to preserve NetherRealm's full arcade roots

Summer Preview 2025 | Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is going above and beyond to preserve the series' arcade history

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Golden Tee Arcade Classics to Release on July 17

Atari has announced Golden Tee Arcade Classics, a new collection that brings a lineup of vintage Golden Tee arcade games to modern platforms for the first time. The digital version is set to launch on July 17, with physical editions for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch arriving October 24.

PC Gamer

ChatGPT got 'absolutely wrecked' at chess by the 48-year-old Atari VCS: 'It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club'

DeepBlue would be ashamed.

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ChatGPT may be the smartest software ever, but this Pong-era game console can do something it can't

A 48-year-old game console has outsmarted ChatGPT in "The Game of Kings," but its victory may be short-lived.

Evening Standard

Best retro game consoles for nostalgic gaming fans

Revisit gaming's golden days with the best retro consoles, offering classic gameplay with today's tech. Explore top picks for nostalgic gamers.

Tom’s Hardware

ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic

It is claimed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o model “got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level” of Atari Chess on an Atari 2600 console from the 1970s.

PC Gamer

Sneeze and this incredibly tiny postage-stamp-sized Atari computer recreation is a goner

A tiny but timely reminder of a more optimistic era of computing...

GamesRadar

"Fate Of Atlantis felt like the movie we never got," says Indiana Jones and The Great Circle producer as devs reflect on the series' gaming legacy: "It really captured the spirit of the movies that came before it"

From the Atari to Xbox Series X and PS5, Indiana Jones game devs past and present discuss the archaeologist's immense and lasting legacy in the medium

Tom’s Hardware

Doom slithers and dithers its way with a 16-color Atari ST port

Jonas Eschenburg shows off Doom running on the classic Atari ST system—complete with 16 color support and more dithering than you can shake a stick at.

MusicRadar

“It provided a blueprint for the ecosystem we swear by today”: How music production became accessible to all thanks to a handful of innovators

We sat down to write a track with our laptop, and pondered how we got here? Maybe via our spare bedroom…or even a kitchen?

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