Groundbreaking consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey and Atari 2600 helped change gaming forever.

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The Video Game History Foundation has expanded its mission to make video game history accessible to everyone by acquiring the rights to Computer Entertainer and making its entire contents free for ...

Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor of Pong, will talk about the early history of Atari and how Pong launched ...

The 1990s were a transitional time for video games, marked by rapid evolution in both technology and design. This era began with the dominance of the NES and the Sega Genesis, systems that carried ...

iam8bit has partnered with the Video Game History Foundation, Mega Cat Studios, and Retrotainment Games to bring programmer Chris Oberth’s long-long Nintendo Entertainment System game Xcavator back ...

A historic moment for Nintendo's hybrid console and the company itself, confirming the greatest success in its history.

Julián F.L. is a Video Game & Anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He knows every single Pokémon by ...

TL;DR: Nintendo's Switch 2 has sold over 6 million units worldwide in just seven weeks, making it the fastest-selling video game console ever and achieving the best launch sales in industry history.

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