Chris Spry, an animator from Portland, Oregon, recently completed Princess Rescue, an attempt to create a Mario-style game that runs on the 1977 Atari hardware.

The quality of the E.T. video game has become an urban legend.It’s the worst game ever made for an Atari console. It’s the worst video game ever made, period. It is so bad, it caused the video ...

Yes, he made E.T., but he also made Yars' Revenge, considered among the best Atari games ever. Yars' Revenge brought him an invitation to translate Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark to Atari.

For whatever reason, the story of how a huge number of copies of E.T.:The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 were buried in a landfill in the 1980s became an urban legend in the ensuing decades ...

To find out what really happened more than 30 years ago, we went straight to the man who made the game: former Atari developer Howard Scott Warshaw. This is his story. "E.T. was the death of Atari." ...

A long-buried copy of the infamous Atari game "E.T." is worth more than $1,500. The desert city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, finally sold off its buried treasure of ancient Atari games, raking in ...

He said that game packaging and cover design today lacks the daring of the Atari age. “People are afraid of the different. They want to do more like what they did last year that was successful.” ...

The game’s creator, Howard Scott Warshaw, attended the dig, which tempered the cynicism and fed a real sentimentality toward the man, the game, and the game’s alien. For many, finding the ...

I shouldn’t be writing this review. When the Atari 2600 was first released, I was still 15 years away from having a mortal coil to call my own, and playing the resurrected Atari 2600+ — a now ...