Atari Age is a website that is meant to bring fans of Atari together; not the company currently called Atari, but rather the historic Atari companies that made the Atari 8-Bit Computers, Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, [[Atari ST|ST computer line]], Lynx, and ill-fated Jaguar. This website also keeps the memories of Atari alive by homebrewing 2600 games even today.
Named for, but not to be confused with, the 1980s-era magazine of the same name, but scans of the magazine can be found on the Atari Age website.
The website can be found here
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Tropes associated with the website include:
- Fan Remake: Some of the many homebrews released over the years are improved versions of existing games for the various consoles (like improved versions of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, or Adventure II for the Atari 5200), some are Video Game Demakes of games that didn't even exist during Atari's heyday (like Princess Rescue, Zippy the Porcupine, and Halo), and many are entirely new.
- The Golden Age of Video Games: The main site focuses on Atari systems, but the forum also has active sections for Intellivision, Colecovision, and other Golden Age consoles.
- In Name Only: The website's longtime attitude to the current Atari. The original Atari Inc. was split in 1984 by its then-owner Warner Communications as a result of The Great Video Game Crash of 1983, with the consumer division sold off to ex-Commodore boss Jack Tramiel to form Atari Corporation, which operated until 1996, when the company, broke from the failure of the Jaguar, became a subsidiary of JT Storage as part of a reverse takeover. JTS sold the brand name and game library to Hasbro Interactive, which was sold a few years later to French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA, which took the Atari name. So today's Atari SA is a French company with very tenuous links to the companies of the 1980s. That said, there's still a section for the new Atari "VCS" console (not to be confused with the Atari 2600's original name) on their forums. And then in September 2023, Atari SA bought the website, keeping on the website founder Albert Yarusso as the company's official historian, part of a push by new Atari boss Sam Rosen to revive the company by leaning on the historic games library.
