Someone actually took the time to dig through the binary file of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ... for the Atari 2600. This is quite a feat in many ways. First off, you need to know the game well ...

Perhaps you've heard stories of the mythical Atari landfill in New Mexico full of unsold E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial games. Well, there's actually nothing mythical about it: the E.T. game landfill ...

The Atari 2600 may not be ... before you crash into the watery pixels below. River Raid also holds historical significance ...

[David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference ... The 2600 could only pump out 160 pixels at once; a single TV scan line.