The thing that amazes me to this day about Atari 2600 games (particularly a game like Donkey Kong) is that each game only had a total of 128bytes (not kilobytes) for graphics and gamestate.

From Pac-Man to Donkey Kong to Space Invaders, the Atari 2600 has some of the greatest and most influential games ever.

The 2600 edition of Donkey Kong, first brought home by Coleco, was a dream-killer to any kid that has already spied screens of the Colecovision edition. (I still think this port was a secret ...

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 is a sad example of a great game. In the arcade version, there are four levels, but in this version, the graphics have been over simplified, and two of the four ...

Crane played a role in games like Pitfall and Dragster, while Garry Kitchen's biggest game may have been Donkey Kong on Atari 2600. Dan Kitchen helped develop the 2600 versions of both ...

To mimic a typical brain study, they examined three types of "behaviors" for the Atari 2600 in the form of three different games: "Donkey Kong," "Space Invaders" and "Pitfall!" They then applied ...

From 1977 to 1990, Atari released 57 games for its Atari 2600, including classic titles like Pong, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders. These games represent part of the home console origin story and ...

Donkey Kong - Summary Donkey Kong has kidnapped Pauline, and it is up to Mario, the fearless carpenter, to come to her rescue. Throwing fate to the wind, Mario tries desperately to climb the ...

Atari just screamed HOLD MY BEER, while donning fluorescent socks and dancing around to Depeche Mode. And then it announced the Atari 2600+ console, which is so retro you had to be there at the time, ...

A new version of the Atari 2600 will be releasing this fall, and it will be compatible with classic games released for the original platform, as well as the Atari 7800. Releasing on November 17th ...

The entire walk-through Landon Dyer's story of joining Atari after creating a Centipede clone was excellent but here's a telling detail from the end of ...

I remember getting Donkey Kong on the 2600 when I was a kid. While not as piss-poor of a port as games like Zaxxon, it was a pale imitation of the arcade original.