AtariAge - Have you played Atari today?AtariAge.com is your best source for classic Atari news, rarity guides, scans, discussion, homebrews, and more!Leonardo DiCaprio to Star in "Atari" Movie- June 11, 2008 Paramount Pictures has given the green light for a movie centered around Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell. The movie, to be titled "Atari", is set to feature Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan Bushnell. Atari was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1972 and the company would become a pioneer in arcade games, home computers, and home video games. Atari became a household name in the late 1970s and early 1980s with their wildly popular Atari 2600 video game console. Nolan Bushnell would later...http://www.atariage.com/index.html#126730 Retrogaming Times Monthly 49 Published- June 11, 2008 Issue 49 of the Retrogaming Times Monthly is now online. Highlights from the June 2008 issue include:Apple Incider - Karateka IINES'cade - Kung FuGame ArcheologistWho'd Win - Battlezone vs. Robot TankOld Wine in New Bottles: Retrogaming on Modern HardwareYou can find all these and more inside the Retrogaming Times Monthly, now running 129 months in a row! If you've missed any back issues, you can also look through their complete archives to get up to date.http://www.atariage.com/index.html#55374 Explosion Takes Out AtariAge (Updated)- June 2, 2008 If you tried visiting AtariAge between Saturday afternoon and today (Monday) around 2:30pm CST, you may have noticed that you could not reach the site. At 4:55pm CST on Saturday there was an electrical explosion at The Planet's data center in Houston where AtariAge's dedicated server is housed. This explosion and resulting fire damaged a significant portion of the building's electrical infrastructure, and all 9,000 servers hosted at this location went offline. Only last night was The Planet..http://www.atariage.com/index.html#55373 |