May 13th, 2013

Google Commemorates The 37th Anniversary Of Atari’s Breakout With Image Search Easter Egg

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If you’re an old-school gaming nerd, then you might remember a little game released by Atari called Breakout. The idea was simple, just hit a ball around and break things. Don’t let the ball get past you, or you lose. → Read More

December 8th, 2008

Compulsory Savings: Tetris and Breakout piggy banks

Piggy banks are boring. Tetris is not boring! Ergo, someone should make a Tetris piggy bank. Ah, there we go. If you don’t mind some of the most ear-piercing, agitating game music in the history of sound, then you might enjoy either the Breakout! or Tetris piggy banks being sold from Japan for about $40. A penny’s all you need to get a game up and running. You’ll have fun AND you’ll learn… → Read More

October 22nd, 2007

Atari founder hates on FPSes, calls game industry 'race to bottom'

“Video games today are a race to the bottom. They are pure, unadulterated trash and I’m sad for that.” Thank you, Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, for saying what many of us were thinking. → Read More