Have you played Atari today?

GSG + CFW + microSD Card + Wireless Controller + HDMI?

2026-05-25T17:18:13+00:00

First I'd like to say that the Community Firmware for the Gamestation Go is great.

But one thing that's not working (at least for me) is that no games on the SD card work when trying to play them on a TV (via HDMI) while using the Wireless Controller.

Does anyone know whether there are any plans to resolve this issue?

Thanks!

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What does this screen tell you ?

2026-05-25T09:33:20+00:00

Please help ? This worked fine for like 15 minutes, then I charged it for like 30 minutes and the display went to crap. It will work hdmi out but that’s it. I can’t use this as a hand held. This came like this with 1.2 installed. Any suggestions ?

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Absolutely chuffed to bits to find an "Atari Game Center". Fits my Atari 2600 and all my games.

2026-05-23T23:13:59+00:00

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Would the panther fare better than the jaguar?

2026-05-23T20:54:45+00:00

The panther would have a early release date around the same time as snes and would be more powerful.

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My First 2600 Cart from 2007

2026-05-23T15:25:08+00:00

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Game ID Help Requested

2026-05-23T04:02:53+00:00

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a game that I used to play. Each player starts as a different colour of planet and you can choose to focus on research, population, or ship production. Each turn the planet gives off a ship which looks like a vector/ arrow. You can then fly to nearby planets. Once you get close to enemy planets, you can attack them.

I thought the game was called Galactica, but I looked under that name and couldn't find it.

Also if someone knows the title, is this game or one similar to it available on PC or mobile?

Thanks for your help!

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Been given an Atari 2600. Any advice?

2026-05-19T10:46:01+00:00

My BIL has given me an 2600. There’s no PSU so I’ve ordered a 9V 2amp one from Amazon. Before I switch it on are there any things I need to know or do first? Do the capacitors go bad and need replacing? Are there any known issues with the console or cartridges?

Any help is most welcome.

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Cleaning out storage hit the Atari Jackpot.

2026-05-18T19:29:46+00:00

I have a ton of video game stuff. I counted 250+ games, mostly 2600's 1 Darth Vader, 5 wood grain, 1 Sears video arcade, but also 2 5200's, and there must be 15 controllers ranging from paddles, to track and field, and a few other brands and styles.

I remember playing Combat at my cousins house when we visited. Pitfall and Chopper Command too. I really like the art work and have manuals to go with a lot of these games as well.

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Is atari done with the plus line

2026-05-19T01:57:25+00:00

Just curious if they will make more games for the 2600 and 7800 plus. Seems like its been a while since they anounced anything.

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The Atari renaissance, how the gaming giant has rebuild itself from the ground up in the 2020s

2026-05-17T23:21:21+00:00

A lot of people still see Atari as a failed brand from a bygone era, and to be honest from 2013 (bankruptcy) up until 2021 you wouldn't be wrong in making this assertion.

However since then the company has successfully managed to rebuilt itself from the ashes, thanks in large part due to the leadership of current CEO Wade Rosen .

Here's a brief overview of everything that has occurred since Wade began his tenure at Atari ( in chronological order ) :

2021

- Wade became CEO and immediately moved the company away from all of it's previous projects not related to gaming (Atari Token crypto currency, Atari hotels, online casinos etc). Atari vowed to return to making premium games on PC and consoles aka go back to making real video games instead of free to play slop on mobile.

- Atari released the Atari VCS console and created the Atari Recharged line of games

- Invested 500k $ in Antstream ( Retro game subscription service )

2022

- Atari purchased Moby games ( the IMDb of video games ) for 1.5 million dollars.

- Released the incredible Atari 50 collection

2023

- Atari purchased Night Dive studios for 20 million $

- Acquired Atari Age for an undisclosed amount

- Acquired over a 100 PC and console games from the 80s and 90s, including Bubsy and Hardball

- Purchased Digital Eclipse for 30 million $

- Invested in Polymega ( 49% stake in the company )

- Created the Atari + line of consoles in partnership with Plaion, and released the 2600+ in the same year

2024

- Bought the rights to Transport Tycoon

- Bought the rights to Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 from Frontier Developments

- Acquired the Intellivision brand and all it's IPs

- Released the Atari 400 mini

- Released the 7800+

2025

- Acquired Thunderful ( the owners of Steam World, Viewfinder, Replaced etc )

- Acquired 5 IPs from Ubisoft ( including Cold Fear and Child of Eden )

- Released the Atari Gamestation GO

- Released the Intellivision Sprint

2026 ( so far )

- Acquired Implicit Conversions (emulation studio known for bringing PS1 and PS2 titles to the PS Plus classics collection)

- Acquired the rights to the first 5 Wizardry games and the universe they take place in "The Llylgamyn Saga"

So yeah a lot has happened to Atari during these last 5 years , they went from one of the biggest laughing stocks in the industry to the most dominant player in the retro gaming market, and a respectable AA publisher. Overall current Atari is the best version of the company since the early 2000s, and hopefully things will only get better from here on out.

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Atari CEO Wants the Company to Become the Best Retro Brand in the whole World

2026-05-17T17:38:38+00:00

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Atari ST Gotek Mount for Slant Type Floppy Drive by Wildseyed

2026-05-17T19:43:29+00:00

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My Pac-Man Corner

2026-05-15T21:55:55+00:00

Finally got it all arranged.

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David Crane (Pitfall!) at the first VCF LATAM 2026 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina

2026-05-15T21:24:52+00:00

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Gamestation Go 2600 Paddle/Spinner Games?

2026-05-14T13:11:37+00:00

After installing the Community Custom Firmware onto my GSG, My microSD card has a subfolder called Atari 2600 paddle games (or similar). I put a few paddle games (with .a26 file extension) into that subfolder, but the GSG's paddle is non-functional in them. (FWIW, the paddle is not functional from the "Atari 2600" subfolder either).

Does anyone know how to get the paddle working in the appropriate games (ie - Breakout, Kaboom, Warlords, etc) off of the microSD card? (Under "Local Storage", the paddle DOES work in the appropriate games so it's not a hardware problem.)

Thanks!

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My new old toy!

2026-05-11T23:20:01+00:00

I still remember getting an Atari 400 for Christmas back in 1982 when I was eight. That 400 was my favorite toy when I was a kid. So happy to find a working one! Now I have one of each generation of the A8s!

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Meshtastic client for retrocomputers (Amiga, Atari, DOS, Mac)

2026-05-12T13:14:24+00:00

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Finally got my hands one one of these. Now, easy money

2026-05-11T00:10:28+00:00

Traded a Commodore monitor for an Atari Portable.

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My Atari 1200XL Home Computer

2026-05-09T15:00:20+00:00

It released in 1983 in March and was Discontinued in June of the same year. It was $900 when new.

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How To Run Colecovision Games on Atari Gamestation Go?

2026-05-09T23:58:42+00:00

I have a collection of Colecovision Game Roms (.col file extension) that I would like to run on my Gamestation Go. I've tried two ways to do this:

Placing the unzipped roms in the "Games/Colecovision" folder I created on my SD card, and
Placing the same unzipped roms directly into the "Games" folder of the SD card.

Neither method has worked for me. Although my PC "sees" the files on the SD card, the Gamestation Go does not. - Very Frustrating.

Note that method #2 above works fine for my Atari 2600/5200/7800 roms, so I don't know what's wrong in the case of these Colecovision games.

I'm running the official GSG 1.1 firmware, if that matters.

So, can someone who has gotten their Colecovision titles to successffully run on their GSG help in getting this to work for me as well?

Thanks!

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In the modern day does Atari do any in house development?

2026-05-08T17:14:14+00:00

I know Atari has bought a bunch of studios recently, and it feels like all their games are produced by those second party studios or separate third party studios. Do they have an internal, first party development team to produce games or even just assist with development?

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Atari has acquired the rights to the iconic Wizardry franchise

2026-05-07T03:16:43+00:00

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Atari Arcade Coin-Op Orbit (1978) Easter Egg Initials

2026-05-07T17:57:02+00:00

Hello, I found a site that mentioned possible easter eggs and this was one of them, stating "The initials “LR” (for Lyle Rains), “OR” (for Owen Rubin), “Ly” (for ?), “Mh” (for Morgan Hoff), and “PM” (for Paul Mancuso?) can be found in the program, coded as graphics. According to programmer Owen Rubin, it’s quite possible these can be triggered to appear on the screen!" I was able to confirm that the initials/signature graphics are present in the ROM as sprite graphics and that they're coded as motion-object graphics in the sprite ROMs. They show up through the game’s built-in diagnostic/test mode, not through normal gameplay. At least as far as I can tell, I don't see a normal gameplay/player-accessible trigger.

The working path I used was:
1. Open MAME’s menu with Tab.
2. Go to DIP Switches.
3. Set NEXT TEST = On.
4. Exit the menu.
5. On macOS, press Fn+F2, then Fn+F3.
6. Open DIP Switches again. Service Mode should now be On.
7. Set DIAG TEST = On, then Off, then On, then Off, then On.
8. Let the diagnostic sequence run.

After the sprite/object diagnostic starts cycling, the hidden initials/signature graphics appear in the high sprite-code region. They do not appear as a clean title-card-style message; they appear as part of the diagnostic sprite test, mixed with other diagnostic graphics and sometimes rotated or stylized.

I found that DIAG TEST can be toggled a few more times to continue cycling through the diagnostic sequence. If Service Mode is still On, the sequence restarts from the beginning with the beeps. If Service Mode is Off, it returns to the main game screen.

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The Infogrames Atari era ( 2001 - 2013 ) was one of the best times to be an Atari fan

2026-05-05T20:56:20+00:00

The amount of high quality games Atari was publishing during this time was staggering, they were unquestionably one of the most prolific publishers in the industry during the early to mid 2000s . Sure Atari wasn't involved in the development of new hardware during this period ( besides the Atari Flashback 2 ) but the games were so good that it didn't really matter .

Just to give you an idea of how great Atari was back then , they published games such as :

- The Dragon Ball Budokai games

- The Dragon Ball Tenkaichi games

- The Beyblade games on GBA

- Lucky Luke on GBA

- Enter the Matrix

- Driver 3

- Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

- Neverwinter Nights

- Witcher 1 ( no that's not a joke Atari published the first Witcher game )

- Alone in the Dark New Nightmare ( one of the best survival horror games ever made

- Alone in the Dark 2008 reboot

- Ikaruga

- V- Rally 3

- Test Drive Unlimited

- Godzilla Unleashed ( yes I liked it, never understood why critics hated it so much )

etc

It's good to see Atari doing well these days, which is in large part thanks to Wade Rosen's leadership ( especially when you consider how disastrous the mid to late 2010s were for Atari). But overall i still think that modern Atari has some work to do in order to get back to the greatness that was the 2000s Atari, the System Shock Remake and Replaced is exactly the kind of stuff we need to see more from them going forward, at least imo.

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Is it still possible to find the 1.3c firmware for Gamestation Pro?

2026-05-05T14:18:48+00:00

I am trying to put the custom firmware on my unit. It seems like you can no longer get the firmware from the atariage forum it was first posted in. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/361263-custom-firmware-for-atari-gamestation-pro/

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