The thing that amazes me to this day about Atari 2600 games (particularly a game like Donkey Kong) is that each game only had a total of 128bytes (not kilobytes) for graphics and gamestate.

Crane played a role in games like Pitfall and Dragster, while Garry Kitchen's biggest game may have been Donkey Kong on Atari 2600. Dan Kitchen helped develop the 2600 versions of both ...

The 2600 edition of Donkey Kong, first brought home by Coleco, was a dream-killer to any kid that has already spied screens of the Colecovision edition. (I still think this port was a secret ...

To mimic a typical brain study, they examined three types of "behaviors" for the Atari 2600 in the form of three different games: "Donkey Kong," "Space Invaders" and "Pitfall!" ...

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 is a sad example of a great game. In the arcade version, there are four levels, but in this version, the graphics have been over simplified, ...

The little “conversion” group of 8 programmers I was in had been moved to a satellite location far away from any of Atari’s major buildings, so we were pretty isolated from what was going on ...

From 1977 to 1990, Atari released 57 games for its Atari 2600, including classic titles like Pong, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders.These games represent part of the home console origin story and ...

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The Atari 2600+ isn't just another retro cash-in; ... Space Invaders, Joust, and Donkey Kong are not among the available games at launch. Read more More Gaming Features.

Garry Kitchen's unlikely story is told in this excerpt from the book Arcade Perfect. Read the whole story ...