It may be nearly 40 years old, but the Atari 5200 still inspires legions of fans to relive the 8-bit glory days of their youth. There was much to love about the game console, but the joystick-and ...

Felix is revisiting his retro gaming console, the Atari 5200. Unfortunately, after sitting in a barn for years it's missing its controllers and has gone rusty. Time for Ben to give the console a ...

The Atari 5200’s analogue controllers are simply perfect for the precision needed to break out a pair of spinners, which is a problem that plagued many of the earlier ports of this game to other ...

It may be nearly 40 years old, but the Atari 5200 still inspires legions of fans to relive the 8-bit glory days of their youth. There was much to love about the game console, but the joystick-and ...

Unlike most other controllers we mention, Atari’s worst ones are the default options, and the 5200 controller is the worst. This thing looks like a TV remote with an awkward joystick at the top.

This controller is definitely interesting, and fun-looking in an old-school way, but you have to wonder what kind of restraints will come into game development for the system with it.

Atari has re-launched this controller too, now called the CX78 GamePad which comes in both wired and wireless forms, which once again are fully backwards compatible with original hardware.

The Atari 2600 Plus takes you back to 1977. The nostalgia factor is sky-high and everything feels right down to the last detail. But we'd like to see more games and the price tag is a bit high.

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So, if you do decide to take the plunge and start an Atari 5200 collection, be sure to target these games. This would-be library has nothing to do with rarity or any of that obsessive stuff. These ...