If you've ever collected baseball cards, comic books, stamps, or maybe those limited edition commemorative plates, you understand the concept of the "Holy Grail" item.
Atari is hoping that taking an iconic 30-year-old title and adding up-to-date graphics and new enemies while retaining the classic feel and playability will produce a game for parents and kids alike.
"I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed." -- Rosie O'Donnell
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Atari was king of the video game mountain. Now it's barely the court jester.
When Jakks Pacific, the nation's fourth-largest toymaker, bought Long Island-based Toymax in 2002, it picked up the rights to some pool toys, a karaoke machine, and a laser-tag system. But it wasn'...
LOS ANGELES (CNN/Money) - I was a Pac Man baby.
Money Magazine: Atari Reduxupdated: Tue Jul 01 2003 00:01:00
When I was 11, I was obsessed with Atari home video games, especially an insects-in-space shoot-'em-up called Yars' Revenge. It was the hot game in the summer of '82, but it cost more than $32 (abo...
If the banner ad isn't dead, it certainly has a hacking cough: According to a recent DoubleClick survey, the clickthrough rate for a simple GIF banner is a practically pointless 0.27 percent--and s...
When the world comes to an end, they're going to call Chris Roome, 26, for tech support. He's not a soldier but vice president of engineering for Video Networks in Gaithersburg, Md., which builds m...
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