With just a handful of caps, resistors, and a pair of pots, the APC is a fabulously fun and easy build made even cooler by [Pat]’s addition of a joystick. The circuit of the Atari Punk Console ...

The legendary video game company Atari has introduced a rather elegant glass decanter shaped like the original CX-10 joystick ...

Many modern retro re-releases try to re-create these kinds of games with more standardized joystick and button controls, but the results can be limited at best and unplayable at worst. The Atari ...

Strange, considering my memories of the original are hazy. Yet seeing this little lump of Atari 400-shaped plastic sparked a wave of nostalgia in me all the same. Even its cables are beige. Although ...

This time it’s a wireless Xbox 360 controller stuffed inside an Atari 2600 controller ... enough to make it useful in arcade games. The joystick portion was reused without any modification.

Gaming has evolved so much since the basic arcade machines of the 1970s, with offerings such as Pong, Pacman and Space Invaders. Each generation since then has enjoyed rapid technological ...