First Look: Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

It's about a group of nerds trying to find where Atari buried all those unsold copies of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. So yeah, my demographic.

Top 25 Atari 2600 Games

For this week's Ranked!, we decided to rank out favorite Atari 2600 games. Here are our Top 25:

25. Jungle Hunt
24. Spy Hunter
23. Dig Dug
22. Gauntlet
21. Joust
20. Mountain King
19. Pole Position
18. Q*bert
17. River Raid
16. Donkey Kong
15. Night Driver
14. Asteroids
13. Berzerk
12. Haunted House
11. Combat
10. Super Breakout
9. Defender
8. Centipede
7. Yar's Revenge

Halo 2600: Say Farewell To Your Free Time

If you're like me, you've been playing the Atari 2600 version of Halo nonstop during the past twenty-four hours.



If, on the other hand, you have no idea what I'm talking about, check it out.


Hit Z to fire your gun. Once you've found it.

Kiss Thursday goodbye!

Those Old, Crappy Video Games Might Put Your Kids Through College One Day

A couple of days ago, my husband packed up our Atari, threw the game cartridges in a milk crate and took the system to his brother's house. I gotta admit, I was kind of glad to see it go at first – it wasn't hooked up, the only game I ever played on it was Ladybug (which I totally ROCK at, BTW) and it was taking up space in our basement. But then I read an article about a guy who sold a really rare Atari game on eBay and walked away about thirty thousand dollars richer, and I found myself wondering if, instead of playing the lottery, we should be taking a closer look at our collection of unwanted and unused video games before giving them away.