Retro Gaming Console Atari 2600 Is Making a Comeback

The long-lasting Atari 2600 sport console from 1977 will probably be reborn later this 12 months as Atari revealed the Atari 2600+ on Tuesday—a contemporary riff on the traditional, wood-paneled {hardware} that may play traditional cartridges together with new ones.

Set to launch on November 17 at a value of $129.99, the Atari 2600+ has anticipated fashionable facilities like an HDMI port and widescreen 16:9 side ratio help, and it comes bundled with a single cartridge containing 10 traditional video games—together with Journey, Missile Command, and Yars’ Revenge.

Not like many of those retro console revivals, nevertheless, it’s not preloaded with video games and it additionally doesn’t connect with the web to obtain extra video games from a service. It’s, successfully, a modernized tackle the traditional {hardware}, able to taking part in lots of of unique Atari 2600 and 7800 video games (though not each single one).

Atari is releasing the {hardware} in partnership with sport writer Plaion, and can launch extra multi-game cartridges sooner or later. The {hardware} will include an up to date model of the traditional joystick, and Atari can even promote the acquainted paddle controller individually.

The Atari model has modified palms many occasions for the reason that firm’s heyday within the late Nineteen Seventies and early Eighties.

Lately, the newest incarnation of Atari has pivoted its consideration in varied instructions—together with crypto tokens and NFTs, and a failed branded resort resort chain. Atari was lately tapped by Coinbase for the launch marketing campaign round its Base community.

Atari additionally made a earlier {hardware} try lately, launching the Atari VCS in 2021. Successfully a compact PC set-top field that might obtain and play each PC video games and traditional Atari titles, the {hardware} acquired combined critiques from critics and didn’t seem to make a substantial affect on the broader gaming market.