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Atari has acquired user-driven database MobyGames It is hard to tell what direction this piece of news may be heading… Atari, the Japanese company known for its consoles such as the 400, 2600, the 5200, and VCS, has acquired MobyGames for $1.5 million. If you aren’t familiar with MobyGames, the user-driven database is a singular […]

9-foot-tall Atari jockstick wins 2022 Guineas World Record for world’s largest joystick! This handy-dandy monolithic contraption was expertly crafted by Mary Flanagan, a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. It’s 14 times the size of the average Atari controller while surprisingly still being perfectly functional for play. This passion project was […]

Atari, known for its many classic games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Pong and Rollercoaster Typhoon (yes I am putting the amusement park simulation game series on par with Pac-Man, deal with it), recently addressed it would be focusing on free-to-play and mobile gaming, has now had a change of heart. Atari Gaming and Blockchain Atari announced back […]

As this is the first time posting on this blog, I think it would make most sense to start with a brief introduction. My name is Ron Zlatkin, I am 24 years old, and am currently working at Go2Games as a content producer and editor. There are a few videos that I have (partially) edited […]

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In 1979 we saw the release of Asteroids which joined a list of games that were the major hits of the golden age of arcade games. Asteroids was a shooter game and had a space theme much like Space Invaders, which was released a year before Asteroids. Although it was similar to Space Invaders, Asteroids […]

Invading arcades around the world – Space Invaders Created by Tomohiro and produced by Japanese electronic game manufacturer Taito Corp, 1978 saw Space Invaders hit arcades in Japan before making its way around the world. Rumour even has it that due to its popularity in Japan, the ever-lasting arcade game led to a coin shortage […]

An arcade legend is born: Pong One of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity was released in November 1972 in the form of Pong. Originally produced by Atari, Pong started off as an arcade game before Atari released Home Pong in 1975, for the public to play the game in the comfort of […]

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