Video Games

The first console arrived in 1972 with two dials and a blue screen. The machines that followed — the Atari 2600, the Commodore 64, and the DOS computers of the 1990s — each brought their own way to play. Every one of them is playable right here, the way it felt back then.

Prefer a real pad? This Bluetooth retro controller works with every game here (D-pad + buttons)↗Magnavox Odyssey — 1972 · The one that started it all: Football, Basketball & Smithereens!↗Atari 2600 — 1977 · The woodgrain workhorse: joystick, cartridges, home-run derbies and ice hockey↗Commodore 64 — 1982 · The best-selling computer of the 1980s — the locker room lived here↗DOS & Windows — the 1990s · Floppy cartridges of shareware — and Same Game, the color-block classic↗