Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

WebinarExpertTeam.comWebinarExpertTeam.com

Tech News

A new Atari 2600 will play your old cartridges

A picture of the Atari 2600 Plus on a gray background with a 10-in-1 game cartridge in the system and a CX40 Plus joystick controller to its left.
The Atari 2600 Plus. | Image: Atari

Atari has announced it’s relaunching its most well-known console as the Atari 2600 Plus on November 17th for $129.99, with preorders open now. It’s a fully functioning, 80 percent scale, HDMI-outputting version of the console that comes with a 10-in-1 game cartridge. Atari says it even supports both 2600 and later 7800 game cartridges and will work with the original joystick and paddle controllers.

Aside from being a little smaller and gaining HDMI and USB-C ports, the 2600 Plus is mostly unchanged. The front bears a strip of wood paneling with a light-up Atari logo, while four toggle switches flank its cartridge slot. Atari says the cartridge socket is a little bigger to help with sticking cartridges. On the back by the HDMI and USB-C…

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Tech News

Samsung’s gaming hub. | Image: Samsung Samsung says it’s planning to bring cloud gaming apps to its 2020 smart TVs later this year. Samsung...

Tech News

The Falcon-9 launches NASA’s Crew-7 mission into space. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space...

Editor's Pick

David J. Bier Customs and Border Protection’s website shows a decline in Border Patrol arrests of convicted criminals in fiscal year 2020 followed by increases...

Tech News

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is reportedly preparing to build a $25,000 electric car built on the company’s next-generation engineering platform....