atari 2600 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/atari-2600/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:33:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png atari 2600 Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/atari-2600/ 32 32 146320098 A Bicycle Named Stella http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/11/a-bicycle-named-stella/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/11/a-bicycle-named-stella/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:33:06 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=7885 The second prong of Bushnell’s two-pronged effort to bring arcade games to more children was a secret project codenamed Stella. In 1975 Atari had successfully converted its smash-hit Pong arcade machine into a home version, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/11/a-bicycle-named-stella/feed/ 0 7885 An Interview with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic Co-Founder Rob Fulop http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/29/an-interview-with-atari-2600-developer-and-imagic-co-founder-rob-fulop/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/29/an-interview-with-atari-2600-developer-and-imagic-co-founder-rob-fulop/#respond Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:05:05 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3875 Paleotronic had the great fortune to chat with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic co-founder Rob Fulop about life as a rockstar videogame developer in the early 1980s, and what came after. We’ve read in other [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/29/an-interview-with-atari-2600-developer-and-imagic-co-founder-rob-fulop/feed/ 0 3875 Flying to the Moon and crashing back to Earth: the meteoric rise and fall of Imagic http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/20/flying-to-the-moon-and-crashing-back-to-earth-the-meteoric-rise-and-fall-of-imagic/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/03/20/flying-to-the-moon-and-crashing-back-to-earth-the-meteoric-rise-and-fall-of-imagic/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 01:43:50 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3783 Upon viewing Moonsweeper for the first time the word ‘wow’ just doesn’t seem to do it justice, yet it’s the first word to form in most people’s brains. It just seems to trite, so simple, [more...]

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